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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Balto. & Liberty Sts. – Vintage Print

[Baltimore fire, 1904] Balto. & Liberty Sts., [1904] — historic photograph
[Baltimore fire, 1904] Balto. & Liberty 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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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Balto. & Liberty Sts. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Downtown at the corner of Baltimore and Liberty Streets, this glass negative records the ruins of the Great Baltimore Fire, which broke out in February 1904. The blaze started on a Sunday and burned for about a day and a half, destroying more than 1,500 buildings in the city's commercial core, and firefighters came by rail from other cities to help. The National Photo Company, which documented American cities in the early twentieth century, sent photographers to record the damage. Look for the streaks and mottling across the glass, which come from deterioration of the original coating rather than from the scene itself.

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 scan8,403 × 6,841 px · prints to 28 × 23 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-248077

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