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[Aerial view of Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Photo Print

[Aerial view of Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.], 1924 — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.], 1924. 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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[Aerial view of Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.]

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Few aerial views from the 1920s show a Washington traffic circle as clearly as this one, with its streets radiating outward like spokes. Dupont Circle takes its name from Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, whose memorial fountain was dedicated in the circle in 1921. By 1924 the area was becoming one of the city's busiest residential and commercial neighborhoods, and the vantage point from the air shows how the streets were laid out around the central park. Photographs like this were still a fairly new way of recording the city from above.

Created / published1924
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
SubjectsDupont Circle (Washington, D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,318 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-202413

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