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[Pennsylvania] Avenue, [Washington, D.C.], at night – Historic Print

[Pennsylvania] Avenue, [Washington, D.C.], at night, [between 1910 and 1935] — historic photograph
[Pennsylvania] Avenue, [Washington, D.C.], at night, [between 1910 and 1935]. 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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[Pennsylvania] Avenue, [Washington, D.C.], at night comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Pennsylvania] Avenue, [Washington, D.C.], at night

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Pennsylvania Avenue after dark is the subject here, the broad thoroughfare that links the Capitol and the White House. The National Photo Company, which recorded Washington's streets, buildings and monuments in the early twentieth century, made this glass negative sometime between 1910 and 1935, a date range the catalog estimates from similar plates. Night views on glass required long exposures, which made them harder to get right than daytime scenes. Viewers should also notice the streaks and blemishes on the plate, which come from the natural deterioration of its original coatings rather than from the scene itself.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1935]
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 scan6,384 × 5,122 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-260557

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