Mother's Day at Arlington, [5/10/25] – Antique Print
![Mother's Day at Arlington, [5/10/25], [1925 May 10] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5c/5ca0e8847667-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Mother's Day at Arlington, [5/10/25], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mother's Day at Arlington, [5/10/25]
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Mother's Day fell on May 10 in 1925, and this glass negative shows how the holiday was observed at Arlington, the national cemetery across the Potomac from Washington. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio that documented the capital in the 1910s and 1920s, made the picture. Its title is unverified, so the caption rests on the studio's own notation and a related negative's date. President Woodrow Wilson had made Mother's Day a national observance in 1914, and many families marked it by visiting graves. The streaks and blemishes on the glass come from deterioration of the original coating, not from the scene itself.
| Created / published | [1925 May 10] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. 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 three. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,294 × 4,228 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-243060 |
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