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[Memorial day ceremony, 1923] – Vintage Photo Print

[Memorial day ceremony, 1923], [1923] — historic photograph
[Memorial day ceremony, 1923], [1923]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company 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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A window into the past: [Memorial day ceremony, 1923], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Memorial day ceremony, 1923]

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Few subjects in the National Photo Company Collection are as tied to a particular civic moment as a Memorial Day ceremony, and this glass negative captures one such gathering from 1923. Memorial Day, observed each spring to honor those who died in military service, drew crowds to cemeteries, parades and public tributes across the country in the years after the First World War. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C. studio active in the early twentieth century, documented scenes like this for newspapers and the public. The negative's surface shows streaks and blemishes from the natural breakdown of its original coating, which is worth keeping in mind when viewing the image.

Created / published[1923]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff based on dates and titles of adjacent negatives in range. 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 five.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,196 × 4,436 px · prints to 21 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-253580

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