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[Md. - Baltimore - Fire of 1904: Guggenheimer & Weil bldg."]" – Vintage Print

[Md. - Baltimore - Fire of 1904: Guggenheimer & Weil bldg."]", c1904 March 19. — historic photograph
[Md. - Baltimore - Fire of 1904: Guggenheimer & Weil bldg."]", c1904 March 19.. 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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The ruins of the Guggenheimer & Weil building are the focus here, one of the many downtown structures reduced to shell walls in the Great Baltimore Fire, which broke out in early February 1904 and swept through the city's central business district for more than a day. The fire destroyed a large part of the commercial core, and photographs like this one recorded the scale of the loss. The caption card lists the date as March 19, but that date is unverified and likely does not match the fire's February timing. The photograph is credited to Joseph E. Henry.

Created / publishedc1904 March 19.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Joseph E. Henry. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Maryland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 927 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122772

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