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[Pensacola Harbor, Fla.] – Historic Reproduction

[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 negatives record one continuous panorama of Pensacola Harbor on Florida's Gulf coast, with piers, wharves, and moored ships stretching across the water. The subjects listed for the set emphasize the lumber trade, which made Pensacola one of the busy shipping ports of the Gulf South in the years around 1900, when yellow pine cut in the surrounding region moved out by sea. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced and sold views of American towns, harbors, and scenery during this period, made the set. Its six plates, labeled 541 G through 546 G, show how the company captured wide working waterfronts.

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 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68389

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