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Wilkins Building, Washington, D.C. – Historic Photograph Print

Wilkins Building, Washington, D.C. — historic photograph
Wilkins Building, Washington, D.C.. 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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This historic photograph of Wilkins Building, Washington, D.C. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Wilkins Building, Washington, D.C.

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Few details accompany the record for the Wilkins Building, but its 1923 date places it in a busy decade for office construction in Washington. The Height of Buildings Act of 1910 limited most commercial structures in the capital, so developers expanded outward and filled blocks with broad, multistory office buildings like this one. The print is a copy made around 1990 from an earlier photograph, a detail that matters to researchers tracing the original negative or its source.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1923, copy photograph ca. 1990.
SubjectsOffice buildings--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,295 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-187161

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