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Commandancia and Tarragona Street wharves, Pensacola, Fla. – Antique Photo Print

Commandancia and Tarragona Street wharves, Pensacola, Fla., [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
Commandancia and Tarragona Street wharves, Pensacola, Fla., [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A window into the past: Commandancia and Tarragona Street wharves, Pensacola, Fla., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Commandancia and Tarragona Street wharves, Pensacola, Fla.

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The wharves at the foot of the Commandancia and Tarragona Street in Pensacola, Florida, take their names from the city's Spanish colonial past. Pensacola changed hands several times between Spain, Britain, and the United States, and the Spanish street names and the old Commandancia site still marked its waterfront when this glass negative was made around 1900 to 1905. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American towns, rail lines, and scenery for commercial use, produced the image, and its large-format negative shows the working piers and shipping activity that tied the port to regional trade.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes561-G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062005. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPiers & wharves.United States--Florida--Pensacola.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70755

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