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D.C. Washington. Aerial views. View of government buildings, looking toward Washington Monument – Vintage Photo Print

D.C. Washington. Aerial views. View of government buildings, looking toward Washington Monument — historic photograph
D.C. Washington. Aerial views. View of government buildings, looking toward Washington Monument. Historic photograph from the Washington Monument 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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D.C. Washington. Aerial views. View of government buildings, looking toward Washington Monument comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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D.C. Washington. Aerial views. View of government buildings, looking toward Washington Monument

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This aerial view looks across the federal government buildings toward the Washington Monument, so the obelisk anchors the composition and shows how the city's core was laid out by the 1930s. The monument, completed in 1884, stood at the western end of the National Mall, and the surrounding blocks were being rebuilt in those years as the Federal Triangle went up between Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues. Photographs taken from the air were still a novelty then, and this one, credited to the commercial firm Underwood & Underwood, records the scale of that construction. The date of about 1937 comes from the caption card, which the library notes is unverified.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1937.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.--Bldgs., US Govt.; DC, Wash.--Views--Aerial...; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,209 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137807

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