City - Baltimore MD - Pratt St - Fruit Importers 1906 Right Half
by Mike Savad
Title
City - Baltimore MD - Pratt St - Fruit Importers 1906 Right Half
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo 1906
Original title: The Basin
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: East Pratt and Calvert streets
This is what East Pratt street looked like in around 1906. It's hard to figure out the actual date, other than another image was taken at this time of this area that did have that date.
You see on February 8th 1904, a huge fire broke out and it spread over the entire town, it lasted for days, smoldering for weeks, ruined over a thousand businesses. But this area, was hit last, partly saved by firefighters using the water from the bay and dousing the area fighting back the fires. And they were successful for a little while. When the fire spread to the harbor right of this image, eventually parts of this street also were destroyed.
The buildings on this side of the street look pretty new, so its fair to say they were hit by the fire. I don't know what businesses were there before the fire, but in this period they are fruit importers. Being next to the water I bet they had fruit from around the world coming in here.
This area was called the Basin, today we call it the Inner Harbor, however this area, that's water now, is currently a building. They filled in this area to expand land, that's why it will look different on a map.
Sadly none of these buildings exist today, they were mostly cleared out in the 1960's-70's, and today its a tourist attraction. There are malls, stores, and large ships to tour.
There is a complete panorama of this scene coupled with the left side available.
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John Hughes
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