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Capitol police lined up on White House grounds in new uniforms, Washington, D.C. – Antique Wall Art

Capitol police lined up on White House grounds in new uniforms, Washington, D.C., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Capitol police lined up on White House grounds in new uniforms, Washington, D.C., [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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Capitol police lined up on White House grounds in new uniforms, Washington, D.C. 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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Here the subject is a formation of Capitol police drawn up on the White House grounds, a setting that puts the Capitol's own force in front of the executive mansion rather than in its usual place on Capitol Hill. The caption card gives no date, and the record notes that its information is unverified, so the exact occasion is uncertain. Photographs of uniformed officers arranged in rows like this were common in the early twentieth century, when departments often used such images for official records, ceremonies and publicity. The new uniforms it describes make the picture a useful glimpse of how a federal police force presented itself at the time.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,124 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-106313

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