Georgetown – Historic Photo Reproduction
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(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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Georgetown. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Georgetown, the riverside neighborhood on the Potomac that predates the federal capital, is the subject of this glass negative from about 1920. The title and date come from notes the National Photo Company wrote on the negatives or their sleeves, so the exact view and year are not fully confirmed. The company photographed Washington streets, buildings and everyday scenes for sale to a wide public. Glass plates like this one were fragile, and the streaks and blemishes across the surface reflect the natural breakdown of their original coatings over time.
| Created / published | [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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,341 × 4,345 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-231976 |
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