Metropolitan and Suburban Scenery, Baltimore, Md.: City of Baltimore, from Federal Hill – Antique Print
![Metropolitan and Suburban Scenery, Baltimore, Md.: City of Baltimore, from Federal Hill, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/57/5724b3c689c2-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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A window into the past: Metropolitan and Suburban Scenery, Baltimore, Md.: City of Baltimore, from Federal Hill, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Metropolitan and Suburban Scenery, Baltimore, Md.: City of Baltimore, from Federal Hill
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Looking north over Baltimore from Federal Hill, this stereograph offers a wide view of the city's rooftops, church spires and streets fanning out toward the harbor's edge. Federal Hill, the rise south of the Inner Harbor, was a common vantage point for photographers in the nineteenth century, when stereo cards were a popular way to bring distant places into the parlor. The card is attributed to W.M. Chase, though its date is not recorded, so its exact moment remains uncertain. Viewed through a stereoscope, the pair of images would have given the city a sense of depth and street-level detail.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo by W.M. Chase. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,213 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106711 |
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