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Nicolino Calyo
A View of the Port of Baltimore. 1836
A View of the Port of Baltimore. 1836
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Nicolino Calyo (American, born Naples, 1799-1884)
One of four images based on his brief sojourn to Baltimore in 1835-1836, looks northwest towards the harbor from Locust Point with Federal Hill on the left. Bay schooners are anchored along the waterfront lined with warehouses and docks.
A steamboat called the Washington has entered the harbor, en route from Philadelphia. Its signal flag could be seen with a telescope from the Marine Observatory on Federal Hill. When the flag was sighted, a similar flag was raised on the flagstaff in Federal Hill to inform the ship’s owner that his boat was approaching.
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