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A chestnut vendor, Baltimore, Md. – Historic Reproduction

A chestnut vendor, Baltimore, Md., [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
A chestnut vendor, Baltimore, Md., [between 1900 and 1906]. Historic photograph from the Baltimore collection.

(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: A chestnut vendor, Baltimore, Md., preserved in this historic photograph. 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 chestnut vendor, Baltimore, Md.

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A street vendor selling chestnuts on a Baltimore street is the subject of this image, preserved on a glass dry plate negative measuring 7 by 5 inches. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced and sold photographic views of American towns and cities, listed the scene in its 1906 catalog, so the picture was likely made in the years just before that. Roasted chestnuts were a common winter street food in American cities at the time, often sold from portable stoves to passersby. The scene offers a useful glimpse of the small trades that filled city streets in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 7 x 5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). G 3412" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09344. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsFood vendors. Chestnuts.United States--Maryland--Baltimore.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan726 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76631

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