City - Baltimore MD - Pratt St - The business district Panorama 1906 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
City - Baltimore MD - Pratt St - The business district Panorama 1906 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo 1906
Original title: The Basin
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: East Pratt and Calvert streets
I made three versions of this image, one left, one right and the panorama it forms. I wanted 3 versions because while the panorama looked better, the single images show more detail and can stand up by themselves. This is the full panorama, the original had a total of 4 pictures, making it even longer to look at, I chose to represent 2, because it told the story better, without making the panorama look like a comic strip.
That said, this is East Pratt street at around 1906, the date was taken from another image I made that had that exact date. But its confusing because on Feb 8th in 1904, there was a huge fire. It burned the town down, but not all of it. About 1200 businesses were destroyed, but they rebuilt it in about a year's time, widening roads and such to prevent sparks from shooting too far.
The fire spread in zones, and this street was one of the last streets, they were able to keep the flames down by using harbor water, but some of them were burned anyway. You can see how new the buildings on the right side version of the image, the left side show older buildings. One was built in 1904, I think the old ones start there, and move towards light street.
You'll notice the water is very close to the buildings, they filled that whole thing in with dirt and made more land out of it, from my understanding that section was man made anyway, but I couldn't verify that. Today there is a Cheesecake factory on this spot, the buildings were torn down in the 1960's-70's. There is nothing left, you would never recognize it if you looked.
To get your bearings, the hotel in this picture is located at 122 East Pratt St. (the one marked 1904 at the top)
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August 9th, 2019
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