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Netherlands legations from 2400 16th St., [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

Netherlands legations from 2400 16th St., [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1926] — historic photograph
Netherlands legations from 2400 16th St., [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1926]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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: Netherlands legations from 2400 16th St., [Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Netherlands legations from 2400 16th St., [Washington, D.C.]

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The picture shows the Netherlands legation at 2400 16th Street in Washington, one of the foreign missions that settled along the 16th Street corridor north of Dupont Circle in the years before and after World War I. As the diplomatic corps grew and moved away from the older downtown, these residences and offices became part of the city's changing social and official geography. The National Photo Company, which documented Washington streets and buildings in the early twentieth century, made the image on a glass negative, and its surface shows the streaks and blemishes that often mark plates of this age. Viewed today, it offers a record of how the capital's foreign missions were housed in the decade or so after 1910.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1926]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 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 seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,359 × 5,159 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261787

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