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Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1925] — historic photograph
Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1925]. 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 Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.], 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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Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.]

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The Corcoran Art Gallery, the subject of this glass negative, was Washington's first private art museum, founded by William Wilson Corcoran and opened in 1874 in a Renaissance Revival building on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio that documented the capital and its landmarks in the early twentieth century, made the picture sometime between 1910 and 1925, when the gallery was a fixture of the city's cultural life. The negative's surface shows streaks and blemishes from age, a reminder that these glass plates were fragile records of everyday Washington.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
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 seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,449 × 5,156 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-260953

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