Rock Creek Park – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Rock Creek Park, [between 1918 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/62/6247978fc86a-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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Rock Creek Park comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Rock Creek Park, the wooded valley that runs through northwest Washington, D.C., is the subject here, and this negative shows a stream winding past a dirt road in the park. The image comes from the National Photo Company Collection, a body of glass negatives made by a commercial firm that photographed the capital and its surroundings in the early twentieth century, roughly 1918 to 1920 by the record's estimate. Rock Creek Park was established in 1890 as one of the first large urban parks set aside by the federal government, and its unpaved lanes and creek banks were popular with Washingtonians seeking a rural escape. The glass plate also shows streaks and blemishes from the deterioration of its original coating, which are part of its physical history.
| Created / published | [between 1918 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| 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 negatives or negative sleeves. 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 one. |
| Subjects | Streams. Dirt roads. Rock Creek Park (Washington, D.C.) United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.) Rock Creek Park. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,241 × 4,197 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-229379 |
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