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[The Ramparts at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla.] – Historic Reproduction

[The Ramparts at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla.], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[The Ramparts at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla.], [between 1895 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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: [The Ramparts at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla.], 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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The ramparts of Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, rise from coquina, a soft shell limestone cut from local quarries. The Spanish began the fort, now called the Castillo de San Marcos, in the 1670s, and it guarded the town for more than a century before the United States renamed it Fort Marion in 1825. This Detroit Publishing Company glass negative, made between 1895 and 1910, shows the walls at a time when the old city was drawing growing numbers of visitors.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Castillo de San Marcos National Monument. X 240" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 32458. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsForts & fortifications.United States--Florida--Saint Augustine.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66060

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