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[Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa.] – Antique Print

[Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Philadelphia 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: [Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa.]

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Two glass negatives, joined as a panorama, record the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Founded in 1831 by Matthias Baldwin, the company grew into one of the largest builders of steam locomotives in the world, and its shops were a major employer in the city. The record suggests these may be the left and center sections of a three-part view, so the full shop floor is not visible here. The wide format shows the scale of the works and the way heavy industry filled the city's neighborhoods before 1910. The pictures came from the Detroit Publishing Company, which issued large numbers of views of American cities and industry.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePanoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Probably part of a three-part panorama; possibly left and center sections rather than center and right sections; other section not in collection. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19136, 19135. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037129. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsIndustrial facilities. Railroad locomotive industry.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68514

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