Mrs. Clears, Mgr. Red Cross cafeteria – Historic Photograph Print
![Mrs. Clears, Mgr. Red Cross cafeteria, [between 1918 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/70/70ec478d799f-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Mrs. Clears, Mgr. Red Cross cafeteria. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mrs. Clears, Mgr. Red Cross cafeteria
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Here we have a woman who ran a Red Cross cafeteria in Washington, D.C., during the years just after the First World War, when the American Red Cross was still running canteens and service rooms for soldiers and sailors passing through the capital. The negative comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington studio that documented the city's government offices, institutions and daily life in the early twentieth century. Its glass plates were often captioned loosely, so the name "Mrs. Clears" is recorded as the studio gave it and has not been independently confirmed. Faint streaks and blemishes across the glass are signs of the coating breaking down over time.
| Created / published | [between 1918 and 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. |
| Subjects | American Red Cross. Women. United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.) |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,110 × 4,202 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-230120 |
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