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Halles Centrales de Paris: details of water and gas fittings – Historic Print

Halles Centrales de Paris: details of water and gas fittings — historic image
Halles Centrales de Paris: details of water and gas fittings. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

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Halles Centrales de Paris: details of water and gas fittings comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Rather than the market's sweeping iron roofs, this view focuses on the smaller utilities that kept the stalls running: the water and gas fittings. The Halles Centrales, Paris's great wholesale food market, was rebuilt in the 1850s and 1860s as a set of open iron and glass pavilions designed by Victor Baltard, and its infrastructure was as up to date as its structure. Such details show how the market managed lighting and water for a trade that ran through the night. The pavilions were demolished in the early 1970s, so images like this one preserve a working detail of a vanished Paris landmark.

Original scan5,975 × 4,409 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi
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