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[Pensacola Navy Yard: Central Ave.] – Historic Reproduction

[Pensacola Navy Yard: Central Ave.] — historic photograph
[Pensacola Navy Yard: Central Ave.]. 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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[Pensacola Navy Yard: Central Ave.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Central Avenue at the Pensacola Navy Yard in Florida is the subject here, a view of the street that ran through one of the Navy's oldest installations on the Gulf Coast. The yard was established in 1826 and grew into a major base for shipbuilding, repairs and training, so a roadway through it carried the traffic of a working military town. Photographs from around 1899 like this one capture the period when the Navy was modernizing and expanding its shore facilities. Many such views were made for official records and government reports, which is part of why they show the everyday details of the place so plainly.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1899.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125141

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