Digging new conduit, 10/3/22 – Vintage Photo Print
![Digging new conduit, 10/3/22, [19]22 October 3. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/24798a0ba2e4-L.webp)
(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 Digging new conduit, 10/3/22 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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Digging new conduit, 10/3/22
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The thing that sets this negative apart is its working subject: a crew digging a trench to lay new conduit, the underground pipe that carries electrical cable, in October 1922. Photographs like this one, made by the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio that documented city life and commerce in the early twentieth century, offer a glimpse of the manual labor that went into building the urban utilities many people took for granted. The record date is provided by the company itself and is unverified, so the exact day should be read with some caution. Glass negatives of this era often show streaks and faded spots as the original coatings aged, and those marks are worth noticing here.
| Created / published | [19]22 October 3. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title and date from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch two. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,388 × 4,332 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-236461 |
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