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[Evening on the Potomac, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Wall Art

[Evening on the Potomac, Washington, D.C.], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Evening on the Potomac, Washington, D.C.], [between 1895 and 1910]. 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: [Evening on the Potomac, 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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[Evening on the Potomac, Washington, D.C.]

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Night views of the Potomac are less common than daylight scenes in the Detroit Publishing Company's Washington holdings, and this one lets the river's dark surface and the city's lights carry the composition. The image was made on an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate, a format that required long exposures, and it dates from between 1895 and 1910. The company sold scenic views of American cities and waterways to a national market in those years, so the picture reflects both that commercial demand and the capital's riverfront as it looked at the turn of the century. The State Historical Society of Colorado gave the negative in 1949.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. X 111" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032188. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRivers. Night.United States--Potomac River.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-65844

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