D.C. Washington. Dept. of Commerce Building. 1932. Aerial view – 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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D.C. Washington. Dept. of Commerce Building. 1932. Aerial view comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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D.C. Washington. Dept. of Commerce Building. 1932. Aerial view
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The Department of Commerce Building on Constitution Avenue, seen from above in 1932, was among the newest federal offices in the capital when this view was taken. Completed that year as one of the large Neoclassical office blocks of the Federal Triangle, it housed the department's trade and industry offices. The overhead angle shows how the long, stone-faced structure anchored the planned federal district stretching toward the National Mall, part of an effort to give Washington a grander civic character in the early 1930s.
| Created / published | c1932 March 3. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | J11072 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,178 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144614 |
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