[Opera house from Plaza Ferdinand VII, Pensacola, Fla.] – Historic Print
![[Opera house from Plaza Ferdinand VII, Pensacola, Fla.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/28/280373e2f4ed-L.webp)
(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 rare historic photograph captures [Opera house from Plaza Ferdinand VII, Pensacola, Fla.] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Opera house from Plaza Ferdinand VII, Pensacola, Fla.]
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Chipley obelisk stands at the right edge of this view, a monument to William Dudley Chipley, the railroad man whose lines tied Pensacola to the wider region. The photograph looks across Plaza Ferdinand VII, a square named for the Spanish king who ruled Florida under Spanish sovereignty, toward the opera house that anchored civic life on the plaza. Made as a glass dry plate negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for travel and town views, it captures the street scene of an early twentieth-century Gulf Coast city.
| Created / published | [between 1905 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. Chipley obelisk at right. G 7021" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039609. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Plazas. Opera houses.United States--Florida--Pensacola. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-69227 |
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