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[Seventeenth Street N.W., Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Photo Print

[Seventeenth Street N.W., Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Seventeenth Street N.W., Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: [Seventeenth Street N.W., Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Seventeenth Street N.W., Washington, D.C.]

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Seventeenth Street Northwest runs past the Pan American Union Building at the left edge of this view, a white marble structure that opened in 1910 and was funded largely by Andrew Carnegie. The building housed the Pan American Union, the organization that later became the Organization of American States, so its presence on a Washington street reflected the country's growing diplomatic ties with Latin America in the early twentieth century. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sent photographers across the United States and sold its views widely, made this large glass plate negative between 1910 and 1915, and the record notes that it came to the Library of Congress as a gift in 1949.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Pan American Union Building at left. G 8017" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039977. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69373

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