Washington Monument As It Stood For 25 years – Vintage Print
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This historic photograph of Washington Monument As It Stood For 25 years brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Washington Monument As It Stood For 25 years
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Brady's glass negative shows the Washington Monument as an unfinished shaft, a stump of masonry that rose only partway toward its intended height. Construction began in 1848 but stopped in the mid-1850s when the Washington National Monument Society ran short of money and political support, and the bare structure stood for decades before work resumed. The wet collodion process Brady used required the plate to be coated, exposed, and developed while still wet, so the picture reflects the fieldwork of a traveling studio photographer. It records a national memorial caught in a long pause.
| Created / published | c.1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative, glass, wet collodion |
| Notes | Mathew B. Brady, photographer. ( 1 negative, glass, wet collodion) |
| Original scan | 1,768 × 2,259 px · prints to 6 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 03248a |
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