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National Delivery Association, [Lincoln memorial, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Print

National Delivery Association, [Lincoln memorial, Washington, D.C.], [between 1916 and 1917] — historic photograph
National Delivery Association, [Lincoln memorial, Washington, D.C.], [between 1916 and 1917]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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A window into the past: National Delivery Association, [Lincoln memorial, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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National Delivery Association, [Lincoln memorial, Washington, D.C.]

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Unlike most views of the Lincoln Memorial, this glass negative records the site around 1916 to 1917, while the marble temple was still under construction on the reclaimed land beside the Potomac. The memorial was not dedicated until 1922, so the scene shows a place most visitors never saw in this state. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio that documented the capital's streets and buildings in the early twentieth century, made the negative. Its streaks and blemishes come from age and deterioration of the original coatings, and the title naming a National Delivery Association is the studio's own unverified notation.

Created / published[between 1916 and 1917]
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. 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.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,505 × 5,134 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261975

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