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Petworth Schools & portables, [Washington, D.C.] – Antique Print

Petworth Schools & portables, [Washington, D.C.], [1919 or 1920] — historic photograph
Petworth Schools & portables, [Washington, D.C.], [1919 or 1920]. 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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Step back in time with Petworth Schools & portables, [Washington, D.C.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Petworth Schools & portables, [Washington, D.C.]

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Petworth, a neighborhood in Northwest Washington, is the place named in this view, which pairs the school buildings with the temporary classrooms known as portables. Such add-on structures were a common response to crowding in the city's schools around the end of the First World War, when population growth outpaced new construction. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a commercial studio that documented Washington's streets, buildings and institutions in the early twentieth century, and it offers a useful look at how growing neighborhoods were served by their schools.

Created / published[1919 or 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
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 six.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,918 × 5,344 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-257978

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