Plaza City Park Pensacola, Florida, 1909 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Plaza City Park Pensacola, Florida, 1909 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Plaza and City Park, Pensacola, Fla.
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Plaza City Park Pensacola, Florida, 1909
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Pensacola, Florida, in 1909 was a port city whose economy rested on yellow pine lumber, naval stores such as turpentine and resin, and the shipping that carried them out of Pensacola Bay. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad had linked the city to the wider South decades earlier, and the Pensacola Navy Yard added a steady federal payroll and a strong military presence. The plaza, laid out in the Spanish colonial era and still called by its old Spanish name, served as the open civic space at the center of town, where residents gathered for public occasions, markets, and band concerts. Its shaded grounds reflected a community that still measured itself by its long history under Spain, Britain, and the United States, and by the mills and wharves that drove its daily life.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Florida |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,490 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Plaza and City Park, Pensacola, Fla. |
| Reference | FL Plaza City Park Pensacola 1909 |
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