Public Utilities group, 11/27/29 – Historic Photo Reproduction
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(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Public Utilities group, 11/27/29. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Public Utilities group, 11/27/29
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A group portrait of public utilities staff, dated November 27, 1929, survives here as a glass negative, a format that recorded fine detail but was fragile and easily damaged. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio active in Washington, D.C., in the early twentieth century, made many negatives like this one, and Herbert A. French gave this example to the Library of Congress in 1947. The date falls only weeks after the stock market crash of October 1929, as the economic downturn that became the Great Depression was just beginning. The streaks and blemishes visible on the glass come from age and deterioration of the original coating.
| Created / published | [19]29 November 27. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. 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 four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,983 × 4,004 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-247441 |
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