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Fire escape, White House – Historic Print

Fire escape, White House, [1923] — historic photograph
Fire escape, White House, [1923]. Historic photograph from the White House 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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A window into the past: Fire escape, White House, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A fire escape on the White House is an unexpected subject for a building usually pictured as a formal monument, and this view puts its practical, everyday side in front of the lens. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio that recorded the city's streets, buildings and public life in the early twentieth century, made the picture, and its title and date of about 1923 come from the company's own records. The image survives on a glass negative, a fragile format that often shows streaks and blemishes as its coating deteriorates. Herbert A. French gave the plate to the Library of Congress in 1947.

Created / published[1923]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 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 five.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,201 × 4,520 px · prints to 21 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-253715

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