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Balaklava harbour, the cattle pier – Antique Print

Balaklava harbour, the cattle pier, [1855] — historic photograph
Balaklava harbour, the cattle pier, [1855]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with Balaklava harbour, the cattle pier, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Balaklava's cattle pier was where livestock came ashore to feed the British army during the Crimean War, and this view shows the harbour as a working supply port rather than a battlefield. Roger Fenton made the photograph in 1855, when the port had become the main British base after the Allied landings on the Crimean coast the previous year. Printed on salted paper, the image records the ships, quays and stacked stores that kept the army supplied through the winter of 1854 to 1855. Fenton's Crimean work was among the earliest sustained photographic coverage of a war, and his views of logistics as much as of soldiers show how much depended on the harbour.

Created / published[1855]
Medium1 photographic print : salted paper ; 29.5 x 36 cm.
GenreSalted paper prints 1850-1860.
NotesTitle transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his letters from the Crimea, with an essay on his life and work by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. London : Secker & Warburg, 1954, no. 18. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 20.
SubjectsCrimean War, 1853-1856--Equipment & supplies--British--Ukraine--Balaklava. Harbors--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Ships--British--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Piers & wharves--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,637 × 3,743 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222532

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