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Memorial Bridge, Looking From The Virginia Side Of The Potomac River Across To The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information – Vintage Print

Memorial Bridge, Looking From The Virginia Side Of The Potomac River Across To The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, c. 1944-1946 — historic image
Memorial Bridge, Looking From The Virginia Side Of The Potomac River Across To The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, c. 1944-1946. Historic image from the Presidents collection.

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A window into the past: Memorial Bridge, Looking From The Virginia Side Of The Potomac River Across To The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Memorial Bridge, Looking From The Virginia Side Of The Potomac River Across To The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information

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Looking north from the Virginia shore, the view takes in the whole span of Memorial Bridge, which carries traffic across the Potomac toward the white colonnade of the Lincoln Memorial. The bridge was built in the early 1930s to line up with the memorial, so the two read as a single axis, a deliberate piece of city planning. The Office of War Information, a federal agency that operated during World War II, produced and collected pictures of American life, and this color transparency likely dates from the years around the war's end, when color film was still relatively rare.

Created / publishedc. 1944-1946
Notes(transparency, color)
Original scan8,364 × 6,455 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceL-M-13

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