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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty St. – Antique Print

[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty St., [1904] — historic photograph
[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty St., [1904]. Historic photograph from the Baltimore 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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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty St. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Baltimore fire, 1904] Liberty St.

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Liberty Street, shown here in a view dated 1904, lies in the downtown blocks that the Great Baltimore Fire swept through that February. The fire began on February 7 and burned for roughly thirty hours, destroying about 1,500 buildings in the city's commercial core. The National Photo Company, a firm that documented American cities in the early twentieth century, made this glass negative, and its surface shows streaks and blemishes from the natural breakdown of the original coating, which lends the scene a faded, aged quality.

Created / published[1904]
Medium1 transparency : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from Enyclopaedia Britannica, 2007 Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan8,411 × 6,849 px · prints to 28 × 23 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-248078

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