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Washington, D.C. An automobile parking lot on 14th Street, back of the Department of Labor – Vintage Wall Art

Washington, D.C. An automobile parking lot on 14th Street, back of the Department of Labor, 1939 — historic photograph
Washington, D.C. An automobile parking lot on 14th Street, back of the Department of Labor, 1939. Historic photograph from the Automobiles 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Washington, D.C. An automobile parking lot on 14th Street, back of the Department of Labor. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Washington, D.C. An automobile parking lot on 14th Street, back of the Department of Labor

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A surface lot on 14th Street behind the Department of Labor building sets this 1939 view of Washington apart from the monuments and government buildings that usually fill pictures of the capital, with rows of parked automobiles taking up the ground. By the late 1930s New Deal programs had expanded the federal workforce in the city, and more commuters were driving downtown, which made lots like this one a growing part of daily life. The image survives as a 35 mm nitrate negative from the Farm Security Administration file, and in 1944 the Office of War Information's Overseas Picture Division received it.

Created / published1939
Medium1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
GenreNitrate negatives.
NotesTitle and other information from caption card. United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,276 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-206854

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