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Vintage Panoramic - Aerial views of Birmingham – Historic Photograph Print

Vintage Panoramic - Aerial views of Birmingham — historic print
Vintage Panoramic - Aerial views of Birmingham. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Vintage Panoramic - Aerial views of Birmingham in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Vintage Panoramic - Aerial views of Birmingham

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Few pictures in this gallery stretch as wide as this panoramic view of Birmingham, which lifts the viewer above the city until streets, rooftops and open ground read almost like a map. Bird's-eye views like this were popular from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, when photographers and illustrators worked from towers, rooftops or nearby hills to record growing cities, and they were prized as both records and expressions of civic pride. The record does not say which Birmingham is pictured or the exact date, so the most useful things to study are the layout of blocks, the density of buildings and the open spaces between them, which show how the town was built and how it expanded.

SubjectsHistoric Print Archive
Original scan1,536 × 1,068 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160773

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