White House gate – Historic Reproduction
![White House gate, [1921] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/64/644c5bca136e-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.)
Description
Step back in time with White House gate, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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This glass negative shows the iron gates of the White House, the executive mansion's public face on Pennsylvania Avenue, dated to about 1921. It came from the National Photo Company, a Washington studio that sold views of the capital to visitors and built a large body of street and monument pictures in the early twentieth century. Herbert A. French gave the negative to the Library of Congress in 1947. Its surface shows streaks and blemishes from the slow breakdown of the original coating, a common trait of glass plates of this age that is worth keeping in mind when judging the image.
| Created / published | [1921] |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,381 × 4,338 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-232878 |
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