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D.C. Washington. Aerial views. Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues – Historic Print

D.C. Washington. Aerial views. Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues — historic photograph
D.C. Washington. Aerial views. Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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: D.C. Washington. Aerial views. Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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D.C. Washington. Aerial views. Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues

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This aerial view follows Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, the two broad streets that frame the federal core between the Capitol and the White House. The caption credits the Photos Section at Bolling Field, an Army air station in southeast Washington, whose aviators photographed the city from above during the 1920s. Constitution Avenue was then being reshaped by federal building projects that would become the Federal Triangle, so the picture shows the city just before that change. The date comes from an old caption card and is unverified, so it should be read with some caution.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1920's]
SubjectsPhoto by Photos Section, Bolling Field. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.--Buildings, US Government; DC, Wash.--Views--Aerial--1920's; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,129 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133963

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