Baltimore Fire, Maryland, 1904 – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Baltimore Fire, Maryland, 1904. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Cycloramic view of the burned area of Baltimore's big fire
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Baltimore Fire, Maryland, 1904
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Baltimore burned on February 7 and 8, 1904, when a fire that began in a commercial building downtown spread through the dense business district for about thirty hours. More than 1,500 buildings were destroyed across the core of the city, and the blaze was among the largest urban fires in the United States of its time. Cold weather froze water lines and hydrants, so crews from Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and other cities came by rail to help, and dynamite was used to blast firebreaks. This panorama of the gutted blocks shows the ruined wholesale and retail streets that merchants, bankers, and dock workers had depended on, and it recorded the ground that the city would rebuild over the following years.
| Created / published | 1904 |
|---|---|
| Creator | mueller, frederick w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Maryland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,050 × 781 px · prints to 14 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Cycloramic view of the burned area of Baltimore's big fire |
| Reference | MD Baltimore Fire 1 1904 |
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