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Supreme Ct. chamber, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

Supreme Ct. chamber, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1921 and 1922] — historic photograph
Supreme Ct. chamber, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1921 and 1922]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Supreme Ct. chamber, [Washington, D.C.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Supreme Ct. chamber, [Washington, D.C.]

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The Supreme Court chamber shown here is one of the few interior views of the Court's working space in Washington, D.C., captured in the early 1920s, when the justices had only recently moved into their own building. The Court had met in the old Senate Chamber in the Capitol for most of the nineteenth century, and the marble chamber pictured here reflects the building that opened in 1935 only after the years of planning that followed the Court's move. This is a copy negative from the National Photo Company Collection, a commercial firm that photographed the capital extensively, so its glass plate records how the room looked to a working photographer of its day.

Created / published[between 1921 and 1922]
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. Copy neg. 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 scan6,438 × 5,104 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-259777

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