Cardinal Gibbons at cornerstone laying at shrine of the Immaculate Conception – Historic Photograph Print
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(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: Cardinal Gibbons at cornerstone laying at shrine of the Immaculate Conception, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cardinal Gibbons at cornerstone laying at shrine of the Immaculate Conception
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Cardinal James Gibbons, then the senior American Catholic prelate, is shown laying the cornerstone of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., a church that was planned as a national center for American Catholicism. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio active in Washington in the early twentieth century, recorded many public ceremonies like this one on glass negatives. Construction of the shrine stretched across decades, so this moment marks the start of a building that would take much longer to finish than its founders expected. Faint streaks and blemishes across the negative come from the natural breakdown of its original coating.
| Created / published | [1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. 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 one. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,329 × 4,345 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-231716 |
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