File:The story of corn and the westward migration (1916) (14784116252).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(3,888 × 2,736 pixels, file size: 1.03 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English:

Identifier: storyofcornwestw01broo (find matches)
Title: The story of corn and the westward migration
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Brooks, Eugene Clyde, 1871-
Subjects: Corn
Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Photograph by E. J. Hall Corn and alfalfa in the Fox River Valley, Illinois, the heart of the vast corn country that for more than half a century has been the granary of the world the New York Road had reached Dunkirk on LakeErie. When the first wagon train was startedbetween Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Baltimoresaw the tremendous value of the trade with thegrain country, and almost as soon as the Stephensonengine was given to the world Maryland, andBaltimore especially, became very active. In 1853the Baltimore & Ohio Railway connected Baltimorewith the Ohio River. The very heart of the corncountry was at last reached. It is interesting to
Text Appearing After Image:
194 The Story oj Corn note here that the railroads in crossing the moun-tains always followed the old Indian trails.^ The Effect of the Railway. George Stephensonswonderful invention was the beginning of a newchapter in the worlds history and a mighty erain the worlds progress. By it the great distancebetween the East and the West was overcome, andthe Appalachian Mountains no longer stood as abarrier between the grain fields of America and themarkets of the world. The railroad drew the tradefrom the Mississippi River and broke the union ofthe West and the South. To-day the great highwaysof commerce run east and west. As the railroadpushed into the far Northwest a new industrialcenter developed, and the pork-packing businesswas moved from Cincinnati to Chicago. NewOrleans ceased to be the leading distributing point ofthe Mississippi Valley, and Chicago, the result of theunion of the railroad and the grain fields of the West,has become one of the greatest cities in the world. Before the

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14784116252/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • bookid:storyofcornwestw01broo
  • bookyear:1916
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Brooks__Eugene_Clyde__1871_
  • booksubject:Corn
  • bookpublisher:Chicago___Rand__McNally
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • booksponsor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • bookleafnumber:208
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:americana
Flickr posted date
InfoField
30 July 2014

Licensing[edit]

This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14784116252. It was reviewed on 5 August 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

5 August 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current19:28, 29 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 19:28, 29 September 20153,888 × 2,736 (1.03 MB)SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs)Bot: Image rotated by 90°
21:06, 4 August 2015Thumbnail for version as of 21:06, 4 August 20152,736 × 3,900 (1.04 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{subst:chc}} {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': storyofcornwestw01broo ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fstoryofcornwest...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_story_of_corn_and_the_westward_migration_(1916)_(14784116252).jpg&oldid=643031241"