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Riggs National Bank – Historic Photograph Print

Riggs National Bank, [between 1910 and 1926] — historic photograph
Riggs National Bank, [between 1910 and 1926]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Riggs National Bank. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Riggs National Bank, one of the best-known financial institutions in Washington, D.C., is the subject of this glass negative, which the National Photo Company made sometime between 1910 and 1926. The bank had been operating in the capital since the 1830s and had become a fixture of the downtown business district by the early twentieth century. The National Photo Company documented the city's streets, buildings and institutions in those years, so the picture offers a record of how the commercial core looked before later redevelopment. Its surface shows streaks and other blemishes from the deterioration of the original coatings, which are part of what a viewer sees when studying the image.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1926]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Copy. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,371 × 5,147 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261414

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