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Wash. Barracks & War College, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

Wash. Barracks & War College, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1926] — historic photograph
Wash. Barracks & War College, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1926]. 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: Wash. Barracks & War College, [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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Wash. Barracks & War College, [Washington, D.C.]

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Few places in the capital tie the Army's history together as closely as Washington Barracks, a post in southwest Washington at the meeting point of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. By the years this view was made, the Army War College had settled there to educate senior officers. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a firm that sold views of the capital to visitors in the early twentieth century. The glass itself shows streaks and faint blemishes from the slow breakdown of its original coating, which are worth noticing alongside the scene.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1926]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
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 scan7,024 × 5,480 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261430

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