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[Agnes Meyer's home, 1624 Crescent Pl., Washington, D.C., looking toward house from tennis courts] – Antique Print

[Agnes Meyer's home, 1624 Crescent Pl., Washington, D.C., looking toward house from tennis courts], [between 1934 and 1950] — historic photograph
[Agnes Meyer's home, 1624 Crescent Pl., Washington, D.C., looking toward house from tennis courts], [between 1934 and 1950]. 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: [Agnes Meyer's home, 1624 Crescent Pl., Washington, D.C., looking toward house from tennis courts], 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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Taken from the tennis courts, this view looks back toward the house at 1624 Crescent Place in Washington, D.C., so the grounds and the residence appear together in one frame. The home belonged to Agnes Meyer, a writer, critic and patron of the arts, who was married to financier Eugene Meyer, later publisher of The Washington Post. Made by the Washington firm Stowell sometime between 1934 and 1950, the photograph records how a prominent Washington household presented its private grounds in those years.

Created / published[between 1934 and 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1950.
NotesPhotoprint by Stowell, Washington, D.C. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1975:127.
SubjectsMeyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst,--1887-1970--Homes and haunts--Washington (D.C.) Dwellings--Washington (D.C.)--1930-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,186 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165577

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