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[Department of Justice building on Pennsylvania Avenue near Madison Place, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Photo Print

[Department of Justice building on Pennsylvania Avenue near Madison Place, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1940] — historic photograph
[Department of Justice building on Pennsylvania Avenue near Madison Place, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1940]. 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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[Department of Justice building on Pennsylvania Avenue near Madison Place, Washington, D.C.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Department of Justice building on Pennsylvania Avenue near Madison Place, Washington, D.C.]

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Pennsylvania Avenue near Madison Place, just a short walk from the White House, is the setting here, where the Department of Justice building stood as the city's federal presence grew. The building belongs to the broader remaking of the avenue in the early twentieth century, when Washington's government expanded and planners pushed for a more formal, monumental civic core. The photograph dates from sometime between 1900 and 1940, so it captures the street while that transformation was underway, and it is worth looking at the scale of the masonry and the way the government architecture lines the avenue.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1940.
SubjectsUnited States.--Dept. of Justice--Buildings--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,218 × 5,140 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-199872

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