Academy of Sciences – Vintage Photo Print
![Academy of Sciences, [between 1910 and 1935] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/18/1844bca5c6bb-L.webp)
(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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Academy of Sciences comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title on the negative sleeve names an Academy of Sciences, but the record does not say which institution it shows, so the subject is best understood as one of the scientific institutions that drew civic photographers in the early twentieth century. The National Photo Company, active mainly in Washington, D.C., from about 1906 to 1936, produced a large body of glass negatives of public buildings, streets and events, and this plate belongs to that output. The glass shows streaks and blemishes from the slow deterioration of its original coating, a common condition for negatives of this age that affects how much tonal detail survives.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1935] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,371 × 5,159 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-260760 |
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