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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Sun building, South & Balto. Sts. – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Baltimore fire, 1904] Sun building, South & Balto. Sts., [1904] — historic photograph
[Baltimore fire, 1904] Sun building, South & Balto. Sts., [1904]. Historic photograph from the Baltimore collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Baltimore fire, 1904] Sun building, South & Balto. Sts., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Sun building, South & Balto. Sts.

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This view shows the Sun building at South and Baltimore streets, one of the downtown landmarks the fire of February 1904 threatened as it swept through the city's commercial core. The blaze, which broke out in a dry goods district on February 7 and burned for roughly a day and a half, destroyed much of central Baltimore, and the photograph records the damaged streetscape in the days that followed. It was made by the National Photo Company, a firm that documented Baltimore and Washington street scenes on glass negatives in the early twentieth century. Its surface shows the streaks and blemishes typical of aging glass plates.

Created / published[1904]
Medium1 transparency : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from Enyclopaedia Britannica, 2007 Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan8,450 × 6,912 px · prints to 28 × 23 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-248055

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