Water front Washington, Washington, D.C., 1909 – Antique Photo Print
(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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A window into the past: Water front Washington, Washington, D.C., 1909, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Water front of Washington, D.C.
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Water front Washington, Washington, D.C., 1909
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In 1909, Washington's Potomac waterfront was still a working river front, where steamboats, schooners, and barges tied up at wharves that handled fish, oysters, produce, lumber, and coal. The Southwest waterfront, along the Washington Channel, was known for its crowded fish and market wharves, and its trade drew watermen and dockworkers from both sides of the river. The city was only a few years into the Taft administration, and its population was still concentrated in the older downtown and along the riverfront rather than in the broad federal grounds planned later. Residents knew the waterfront as the place where the city's commerce met the Potomac, and where the rivers' seasonal rhythms, such as the fishing runs and spring floods, set the pace of local work.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington, D.C. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 897 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Water front of Washington, D.C. |
| Reference | DC Water front Washington 1909 |
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