Express shipments of oysters leaving oyster house, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A. – Historic 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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A window into the past: Express shipments of oysters leaving oyster house, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A., 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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Express shipments of oysters leaving oyster house, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.
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Loaded wagons and crates of shucked oysters crowd the loading area in this stereograph, which captures the shipping end of Baltimore's oyster trade around 1905. Baltimore was one of the largest oyster-processing ports on the East Coast in those years, and its packing houses sent shellfish by rail and wagon to markets across the country, often in iced containers. Stereographs like this were made as pairs of nearly identical photographs viewed through a hand-held stereoscope, which gave viewers a three-dimensional sense of the busy scene. The card is part of the Library of Congress collection of 1900s stereographs.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Subjects | Oyster industry--Maryland--Baltimore--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,390 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132526 |
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