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[Unloading a banana steamer, Baltimore, Maryland] – Vintage Wall Art

[Unloading a banana steamer, Baltimore, Maryland], [1905?] — historic photograph
[Unloading a banana steamer, Baltimore, Maryland], [1905?]. 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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A window into the past: [Unloading a banana steamer, Baltimore, Maryland], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Unloading a banana steamer at a Baltimore pier is the subject of this glass-plate negative, one of the many scenes the Detroit Publishing Company made of working waterfronts around 1905. Baltimore was among the busiest fruit-import ports on the East Coast, and its harbor handled large shipments of bananas arriving by steamer from Central America and the Caribbean. Crews moved the fruit off the holds in bunches and crates, and the work was done by hand on the wharves. The Detroit company, known for its commercial views of the country, sold images like this to railroads and publishers who wanted to show American industry at work.

Created / published[1905?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 2485 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033866. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBananas. Shipping. Cargo ships. Piers & wharves.United States--Maryland--Baltimore.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67023

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