[Aerial views of Birmingham, Alabama: Court House and Library] – Historic Print
![[Aerial views of Birmingham, Alabama: Court House and Library], c1934 Oct. 11. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/af/afde3f4cdbe2-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: [Aerial views of Birmingham, Alabama: Court House and Library], 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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[Aerial views of Birmingham, Alabama: Court House and Library]
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This aerial view looks down on Birmingham, Alabama, with the court house and the public library as its main landmarks. The photograph is dated around October 1934, though that date comes from a caption card and has not been independently verified. Birmingham had grown quickly from its founding in 1871 as an iron and steel center, and by the 1930s its downtown civic buildings marked the city's ambitions as a regional hub. The print was made by Aero-graphic Corporation of Louisville, Kentucky, a firm known for commercial aerial photographs of American cities in that period.
| Created / published | c1934 Oct. 11. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Aero-graphic Corp., Louisville, Ky. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,064 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160771 |
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