Destroyed city of Pompeii, Italy, 1910 – Antique Photo 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Destroyed city of Pompeii, Italy, 1910. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Destroyed city of Pompeii]
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Destroyed city of Pompeii, Italy, 1910
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Pompeii in 1910 was an excavated ruin rather than a living town, its streets and buried houses having been partly uncovered since the eighteenth century under the Bourbon kings of Naples. Mount Vesuvius, which had buried the city in 79 CE, still loomed over the Bay of Naples, and the nearby towns of the Campanian plain depended on vineyards, citrus, and the growing tourist trade that brought visitors by rail from Naples. Italian excavation at the site was then directed by the national government, which had made the ruins a subject of scholarly study and public fascination. The panorama shows the open streets and roofless walls that visitors of the period came to see, a landscape that had changed little since the systematic digs of the late nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moffett studio |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Italy |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 908 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Destroyed city of Pompeii] |
| Reference | ITALY Destroyed city of Pompeii 1910 |
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