A scene of desolation, a section of the fire area, Baltimore – Antique 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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Step back in time with A scene of desolation, a section of the fire area, Baltimore, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A scene of desolation, a section of the fire area, Baltimore
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Few American cities bore the marks of a single disaster as plainly as Baltimore after its February 1904 fire, and this stereograph shows one stretch of the ruined downtown. The blaze broke out on February 7 and burned for roughly thirty hours, destroying much of the central business district, and firefighters blew up buildings in its path to stop it. Frozen hydrants and weak water pressure hampered the response, and companies arrived by rail from several neighboring cities. Stereo cards like this one, issued by the H.C. White Company, let viewers at home see the wreckage in three dimensions through a stereoscope.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 10383. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Fires; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106707 |
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