Tomb Unknown Arlington Cmtry, Virginia, 1921 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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This rare historic image captures Tomb Unknown Arlington Cmtry, Virginia, 1921 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Unidentified group standing in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia]
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Tomb Unknown Arlington Cmtry, Virginia, 1921
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Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, 1921. The hillside across the Potomac from Washington had been the Custis and Lee family estate until Union forces took it during the Civil War and began burying their dead there in 1864. By 1921 the grounds held men from several wars and were filling quickly with the First World War dead. That autumn the country prepared to lay an unidentified American soldier to rest on the bluff above the river, a man chosen in France and brought home for a ceremony on Armistice Day, November 11, 1921, which President Warren G. Harding attended. The slope was then known both as a burial ground and as the setting of the old Arlington House, which still stood above the graves.
| Created / published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,481 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Unidentified group standing in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia] |
| Reference | VA Tomb Unknown Arlington Cmtry 1921 |
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