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[Young man in dormitory room] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Young man in dormitory room], [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Young man in dormitory room], [between 1910 and 1920]. 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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A window into the past: [Young man in dormitory room], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A young man sits in a dormitory room, captured on an 8 by 6 inch glass negative whose specific school or building the record does not name. The plate belongs to the National Photo Company, a commercial Washington, D.C., studio active from the late 1890s into the 1930s that photographed the city's streets, buildings and people. Library of Congress staff devised the title, and the 1910 to 1920 date rests on neighboring negatives in the same range, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of student life in that decade. Streaks and blemishes on the glass come from deterioration of the original coating, which is worth keeping in mind when judging its tones.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,933 × 5,321 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-260147

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