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[Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa.] – Historic Reproduction

[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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Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia was among the largest locomotive builders in the United States, a firm founded by Matthias Baldwin in 1831. This panoramic view survives as two glass negatives, and the record suggests they may be the left and center sections of a three-part panorama, so the full scene was wider than what remains. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many such views for commercial sale around 1900 to 1910, made the picture. Together, the sections show the scale of a plant that helped drive the nation's railroad expansion.

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 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68513

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