Modern shipping in the ancient Athenian harbor at Piraeus, Greece – Vintage Print
(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: Modern shipping in the ancient Athenian harbor at Piraeus, Greece, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Modern shipping in the ancient Athenian harbor at Piraeus, Greece
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Piraeus, the port that served Athens for centuries, is the setting here, and the card's title pointedly sets modern cargo work against an ancient harbor. Themistocles strengthened Piraeus around 480 BC, and the Long Walls linked it to the city, making it the core of Athenian sea power. By 1907, when this stereograph was copyrighted, Piraeus had become Greece's main commercial port, and the freight handling the caption describes reflects that shift. Viewed through a stereoscope, the paired images give the docks a sense of depth that flat prints of the period could not.
| Created / published | c1907 Jan. 7. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | H88884 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by American Stereoscopic Company. No. 2147. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Freight & freightage; Greece--Piraeus; Shipping; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,335 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140447 |
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