[One of the modern concrete business buildings facing a central park, San Salvador, El Salvador] – Antique Photo Print
![[One of the modern concrete business buildings facing a central park, San Salvador, El Salvador], [ca. 1917] — vintage postcard](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e7/e778feb6afa8-L.webp)
(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 [One of the modern concrete business buildings facing a central park, San Salvador, El Salvador], a vintage postcard 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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[One of the modern concrete business buildings facing a central park, San Salvador, El Salvador]
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Concrete business buildings line the edge of San Salvador's central park in this c. 1917 postcard, a sign of how the Salvadoran capital was changing in the early twentieth century. Coffee exports had brought money and commerce to the city, and builders increasingly turned to reinforced concrete, which was valued in a country prone to earthquakes. Commercial postcards like this one circulated widely at the time, so the scene reflects both the city's modernizing streets and the way its image was promoted abroad.
| Created / published | [ca. 1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (postcard) |
| Genre | Postcards 1910-1920.Photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Wittemann Collection. |
| Subjects | Commercial facilities--El Salvador--San Salvador--1910-1920. Streets--El Salvador--San Salvador--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 899 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168759 |
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