Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29 – Historic Reproduction
![Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29, [19]29 August 17. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/07/07d07a6acbe7-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29
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Hoover's retreat on the Rapidan River in Virginia, the camp the president used as a weekend getaway, is the setting for this August 1929 view, taken only months after he took office. The camp, which the government had established on land along the river in the Blue Ridge foothills, gave Hoover a place to fish, work and host small gatherings away from Washington. This image comes from the National Photo Company Collection, a body of commercial photographs whose staff recorded government figures and events during the 1920s and 1930s. The glass negative shows the streaks and blemishes typical of aging emulsion, which are part of its physical history.
| Created / published | [19]29 August 17. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. 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 four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,640 × 4,359 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-247001 |
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