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Birdseye view, Cedar Rapids, IA – Historic Reproduction

Birdseye view, Cedar Rapids, IA, c1907. — historic photograph
Birdseye view, Cedar Rapids, IA, c1907.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Birdseye view, Cedar Rapids, IA. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Birdseye view, Cedar Rapids, IA

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A panoramic print nearly four feet long sets this view apart, showing Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from an elevated vantage point. Its copyright deposit, filed by F. J. Bandholtz in July 1907, dates it to the period. Bird's-eye views like this were a popular format in the early 1900s, when photographers worked from tall buildings or nearby heights to capture a whole town at once. Cedar Rapids, on the Cedar River, was then a busy milling and manufacturing center, so a view of this scale would have recorded its streets, rooftops and industrial reach in one sweep.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 9.5 x 46.5 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Gelatin silver prints.Panoramic photographs.
NotesH96821 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Des Moines, IA. Copyright deposit; F. J. Bandholtz; July 12, 1907.
SubjectsUnited States--Iowa--Cedar Rapids.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,286 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178837

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