Puerto de Valparaíso, dockside carts and ships (1890)

1890 Valparaíso, Chile

Carts and ships crowd the dockside at the port of Valparaíso in this 1890 photograph, when the city was Chile's principal Pacific harbor and a major waypoint for vessels trading along South America's western coast.

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