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[Pensacola Harbor, Fla.] – Historic Print

[Pensacola Harbor, Fla.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Pensacola Harbor, Fla.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Six glass plates, joined as a panorama, sweep across Pensacola Bay's waterfront, with piers, wharves, and ships tied up along the shore. Pensacola was a major Gulf Coast port in the early 1900s, and its harbor shipped large quantities of yellow pine lumber from the surrounding forests, so the scene reflects the timber trade that shaped the city's economy. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its wide-ranging views of American towns, ports, and landscapes, made the negatives around the turn of the twentieth century. The sequence records a working waterfront at a time when the lumber trade was at its height.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium6 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs.
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19011, 19010, 19009, 19008, 19007, 19006. Labels on negatives, from left to right: 541 G, 542 G, 543 G, 544 G, 545 G, 546 G. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037046. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHarbors. Piers & wharves. Lumber industry. Ships.United States--Florida--Pensacola.United States--Florida--Pensacola Bay.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68386

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