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Rockville Fair, [Maryland], 1928 – Vintage Photo Print

Rockville Fair, [Maryland], 1928, 1928 — historic photograph
Rockville Fair, [Maryland], 1928, 1928. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Rockville Fair, [Maryland], 1928. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rockville Fair, [Maryland], 1928

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Rockville Fair in Maryland, recorded in 1928 on a glass negative, is one of the Washington-area scenes made by the National Photo Company, a commercial studio whose large body of views documents the region in the 1920s and 1930s. County fairs of that period were major social events for farm families, drawing exhibits, games, and crowds from the surrounding countryside. The record notes that the title comes from company data that has not been independently verified. Worth noticing are the streaks and blemishes across the plate, which stem from natural deterioration of the original coatings on glass negatives of this age.

Created / published1928
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 seven.
SubjectsUnited States--Maryland--Rockville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,353 × 5,147 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-262696

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