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Bureau Printing & Engraving, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

Bureau Printing & Engraving, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1925] — historic photograph
Bureau Printing & Engraving, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1925]. 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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Few buildings in Washington are as closely tied to daily American life as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Treasury agency that designs and prints paper currency and many federal securities. This glass negative, made by the National Photo Company between about 1910 and 1925, records the bureau's Washington site at a time when the company was photographing the capital's government buildings for wide circulation. Viewers should note the streaks and blemishes on the plate, which the record attributes to deterioration in its original coating, and these marks are part of what the negative now shows.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1925]
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. 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 seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,162 × 6,495 px · prints to 17 × 22 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261200

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