Pennsylvania Ave Washington, Washington, D.C., 1909 – Historic Photograph Print
(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: Pennsylvania Ave Washington, Washington, D.C., 1909, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.
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Pennsylvania Ave Washington, Washington, D.C., 1909
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Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., in 1909 ran between the White House and the Capitol as the city's main ceremonial and commercial street. The capital was then a government town of roughly 300,000 people, where federal clerks, streetcar workers, and local merchants made up most of the workforce and the city's economy depended heavily on Congress and federal payrolls. Electric streetcars were carrying residents along the avenue, and the city was still working through the McMillan Plan of 1901, which had called for clearing the Mall and reshaping the monumental core. Public life centered on parades, inaugurations, and the crowds that gathered near the Capitol and the Willard Hotel. Washingtonians of the day knew the avenue as the city's front door, the route every presidential procession took.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington, D.C. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,151 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. |
| Reference | DC Pennsylvania Ave Washington 1909 |
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