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[Mural in Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C., showing children, trees, and animals] – Antique Print

[Mural in Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C., showing children, trees, and animals], [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph
[Mural in Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C., showing children, trees, and animals], [between 1909 and 1932]. 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: [Mural in Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C., showing children, trees, and animals], 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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Painted scenes of children, trees, and animals decorate the interior of the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., making the mural the subject of this view. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio active in the capital in the early twentieth century, photographed government buildings and notable interiors, and its pictures document how such rooms looked during that period. Murals with rural and everyday themes were central to post-revolutionary Mexico's public art in the 1920s, when the government promoted them as a celebration of its people and landscape. The record dates the photograph only to a span between 1909 and 1932, so the exact year remains uncertain.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1932]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection. No. 1865.
SubjectsEmbassies--Mexican--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940. Murals--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940. Interiors--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,283 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184442

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