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Pan American Union, [Washington, D.C.], interior – Historic Reproduction

Pan American Union, [Washington, D.C.], interior, [between 1910 and 1925] — historic photograph
Pan American Union, [Washington, D.C.], interior, [between 1910 and 1925]. 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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Pan American Union, [Washington, D.C.], interior

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Few buildings in Washington were built to hold an entire hemisphere's diplomacy under one roof, and this view of the interior of the Pan American Union shows the building that did so. The Union, which grew out of an 1890 conference of American nations, moved into its Beaux-Arts headquarters on Constitution Avenue in 1910, funded in part by Andrew Carnegie. The National Photo Company, which photographed the capital's government buildings and streets in the early twentieth century, made this glass negative sometime between 1910 and 1925. Streaks and surface flaws from the aging coating are visible, a common condition of plates of this age.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. 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 seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,477 × 5,133 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261303

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