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[William Tindall residence, Columbia Road and Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C., with man entering front door] – Historic Reproduction

[William Tindall residence, Columbia Road and Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C., with man entering front door], Washington — historic photograph
[William Tindall residence, Columbia Road and Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C., with man entering front door], Washington. 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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Step back in time with [William Tindall residence, Columbia Road and Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C., with man entering front door], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[William Tindall residence, Columbia Road and Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C., with man entering front door]

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The house at the corner of Columbia Road and Connecticut Avenue belonged to William Tindall, and the photograph shows a man stepping through its front door, which gives a rare sense of daily life at the entrance rather than only the building's facade. The record gives no exact date, but the subject heading places it between about 1880 and 1910, a period when the streets north of Dupont Circle were filling with detached and row houses as Washington's residential neighborhoods expanded. Pictures like this one, which record ordinary homes of that era, are useful for seeing how such houses were built and how their doorways and street frontages were arranged.

Created / publishedWashington
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesD.C.
SubjectsDwellings--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,142 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167444

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