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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty & Lombard Sts., S.W. limit of fire – Antique Print

[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty & Lombard Sts., S.W. limit of fire, [1904] — historic photograph
[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty & Lombard Sts., S.W. limit of fire, [1904]. 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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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty & Lombard Sts., S.W. limit of fire comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty & Lombard Sts., S.W. limit of fire

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This view records the southwestern limit of the fire at Liberty and Lombard streets, the point where the blaze stopped advancing through downtown Baltimore. The Great Baltimore Fire began on February 7, 1904, and burned for roughly thirty hours, destroying more than 1,500 buildings in the commercial core. Fire companies from Washington, Philadelphia, and other cities were sent by rail to help, a sign of how far the flames had spread. The photograph comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington firm known for its glass-plate negatives of American cities, so it shows the ruins as a working commercial photographer documented them.

Created / published[1904]
Medium1 transparency : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from Enyclopaedia Britannica, 2007 Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan8,450 × 6,888 px · prints to 28 × 23 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-248059

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