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[Soldiers' Home (United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home), Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

[Soldiers' Home (United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home), Washington, D.C.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Soldiers' Home (United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home), Washington, D.C.], [between 1905 and 1920]. 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: [Soldiers' Home (United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home), 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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The record names the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C., the veterans' residence on the city's northwest edge, which the government established in 1851 for disabled and aging soldiers. President Abraham Lincoln spent summers at the grounds' Anderson Cottage during the Civil War, a connection that gives the site lasting interest. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made large numbers of American views for postcards and travel books in the early 1900s, produced this 8 by 10 inch glass negative between about 1905 and 1920.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5288" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036799. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSoldiers' homes.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68138

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