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Baltimore from the Emerson Tower – Vintage Print

Baltimore from the Emerson Tower, [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Baltimore from the Emerson Tower, [between 1910 and 1920]. 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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This historic photograph of Baltimore from the Emerson Tower brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Baltimore from the Emerson Tower

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The view from the Emerson Tower is what sets this glass-plate negative apart from the other Baltimore cityscapes on the board. The Emerson Tower was a landmark of the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer company, whose headquarters and bottling works stood in the city, and its height gave photographers a rare elevated vantage over the streets, rooftops and harbor approaches. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced this 8 x 10 inch negative sometime between 1910 and 1920, sold views like this to travelers and publishers eager to show American cities as bustling centers of commerce. The plate was later given to the State Historical Society of Colorado and entered the Library of Congress collection in 1949.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 073432. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCommercial facilities.United States--Maryland--Baltimore.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74284

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