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Pan American Union, O'Higgins Statue, [Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Print

Pan American Union, O'Higgins Statue, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1909 and 1940] — historic photograph
Pan American Union, O'Higgins Statue, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1909 and 1940]. 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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A window into the past: Pan American Union, O'Higgins Statue, [Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Pan American Union, O'Higgins Statue, [Washington, D.C.]

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A statue of Bernardo O'Higgins, the Chilean independence leader, stands near the Pan American Union on Constitution Avenue in Washington. The headquarters building, completed in 1910, was built to house the association of American republics, and the monument to a man who helped free Chile from Spanish rule fits its role as a meeting place for diplomacy across the Americas. The picture is a glass negative from the National Photo Company, a commercial studio that recorded Washington's streets and monuments in the early twentieth century. Its streaks and blemishes come from the decay of the original coatings, not from the scene itself.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1940]
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. 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 six.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,139 × 6,477 px · prints to 17 × 22 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-257760

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