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Panoramic photograph of a city with domed building and bay – Vintage Wall Art

Panoramic photograph of a city with domed building and bay, 1913 — historic photograph
Panoramic photograph of a city with domed building and bay, 1913. Historic photograph from the PAN PHOTOS collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Panoramic photograph of a city with domed building and bay. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Panoramic photograph of a city with domed building and bay

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A wide panoramic view of a city stretches across the frame, with a prominent domed building rising above the streets and a bay opening along the edge of the town. Panoramic photographs like this were especially popular in the 1900s and 1910s, when long-format prints, often made from multiple exposures or specialty cameras, were sold as souvenirs and used to show off growing communities. Florida's coastal towns were expanding quickly in 1913 as railroads and tourism brought new residents and visitors. The domed building and the waterfront are the features most worth studying, since they show how civic architecture and the bay together shaped the town's identity.

Created / published1913
Original scan2,550 × 750 px · prints to 8 × 2 in at 300 dpi
Reference16400BK90P-FL Tampa 1 1913

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