Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1912 – Antique Photo Print
(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: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1912, preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: [Baton Rouge water front during record high water]
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1912
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1912 was the state capital and a river town on the east bank of the Mississippi, where government offices, the state university, and riverfront commerce shaped daily life. The city's economy still leaned on shipping, sugar and cotton moving through the port, and the lumber trade that had come out of the cypress swamps to the north. The Standard Oil refinery, which opened in 1909, was beginning to bring industrial jobs and a new kind of growth to the southern edge of town. Residents of the period knew Baton Rouge as a place where legislators met in the old Capitol and where the river's levees, floods, and steamboat traffic set the rhythm of the seasons.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ewing, j. g. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Louisiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,074 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Baton Rouge water front during record high water] |
| Reference | LA Baton Rouge 1912 |
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