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The New Raleigh, Washington, D.C. – Historic Reproduction

The New Raleigh, Washington, D.C., [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
The New Raleigh, Washington, D.C., [between 1910 and 1920]. 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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The New Raleigh, Washington, D.C.

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The New Raleigh was a hotel at the corner of 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, a prominent address near the center of the capital and a short walk from the Federal Triangle and the Treasury. Hotels like this one served visiting politicians, lobbyists and out-of-town businessmen, and their lobbies and façades were often photographed as symbols of a growing city. This glass-plate negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely in the years before and after 1910 to document American cities and landmarks for color and print sales. The building was later demolished, so the negative now stands as a record of a streetscape that no longer exists.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAt 12th and Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., demolished. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072865. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHotels.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73841

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