Panoramic photograph of a long pier and waterfront buildings – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Panoramic photograph of a long pier and waterfront buildings, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Panoramic photograph of a long pier and waterfront buildings
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The record gives only a title, so I'll focus on what the scene itself shows. A long pier running out from the shoreline dominates this panoramic view, with a row of waterfront buildings lining the edge of the harbor behind it. Piers like this were the working spines of many American and European port towns in the late 1800s and early 1900s, where ships loaded cargo, ferries docked, and passengers came ashore. Panoramic views were a popular way to record such busy waterfronts, since they captured the full length of the shore and its activity in one wide frame.
| Original scan | 4,133 × 694 px · prints to 14 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 906_Long_Beach_California_1908.tif-6a18271u |
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