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1910

Key West, Florida Bird's-eye View from Lighthouse Showing the Harbor.

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Key West, Florida Bird's-eye View from Lighthouse, Showing the Harbor.

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Scarce, framed color panoramic photograph ca. 1910 "Key West, Florida Bird's-eye View from Lighthouse, Showing the Harbor." Shows Key West homes before they were electrified. A horse and buggy are shown driving down Whitehead Street. Not examined out of frame but believed to be a scarce, 3-panel folding postal card, never folded.

In period bubble-glass and wood frame with original black backing and seller's label for Babberger Studio, Canon City, Colorado. Babberger's photography studio in Colorado burned on December 14, 1915, destroying all the contents [1]. William Babberger was a noted bee keeper whose apiary was featured in the January 1913 edition of the American Bee Journal.

Not found for sale online.

[1] Source: Online. Bulletin of Photography, Volume 17. p. 793.

The illustration and quotation on this trade card were not unique to John Cosgrove but rather part of a stock design widely used by 19th-century printers who specialized in producing humorous or sentimental advertising cards. Lithographers commonly kept catalogs of ready-made comic scenes—like this seaside mother-and-child vignette with the line “It’s a wise child that knows its own mother at the sea side”—which merchants could customize by adding their own business imprint below. In this case, the printer simply inserted Cosgrove’s name, trade description, and Poydras Market address into the blank advertising panel at the bottom, allowing a small New Orleans fish dealer to benefit from professionally printed imagery at a fraction of the cost of commissioning original artwork.

CREATOR: Anonymous

PUBLICATION DATE: 1910

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean

CONDITION: Good. Not examined out of frame. Frame solid with original old glass.

COLORING: Photo color.

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SIZE: 16 " x 4 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0

PRICE: $

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