5 Street South
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- Material Type
- Photograph
- Date Range
- October 1912
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession No.
- 20031061000
- Physical Description
- Black and white negative
- Scope and Content
- View of 5 Street South decorated for the Seventh International Dry Farming Congress. The view is looking south from about 1 Avenue South.
- Material Type
- Photograph
- Date Range
- October 1912
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- Black and white negative
- Physical Condition
- Fair
- History Biographical
- The Seventh International Dry Farming Congress was held in Lethbridge from 21 to 26 October 1912. Approximately 5,000 delegates and guests attended the event from all over the world. Lethbridge at the time had a population of only 8,400, and delegates were accomodated in hotels, private homes, tents and railway cars. The City of Lethbridge spent about 1.5 million dollars in municipal improvements for the Congress: paving downtown streets, a street railway system, water treatment plant, buildings on the Exhibition Grounds, and other improvements.
- Acquisition Source
- Anonymous
- Scope and Content
- View of 5 Street South decorated for the Seventh International Dry Farming Congress. The view is looking south from about 1 Avenue South.
- Access Restrictions
- Public Access
- Accession No.
- 20031061000
- Collection
- Archive
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