Pershing Ofc., War. Dept., 10/21/21 – Historic Photograph Print
![Pershing Ofc., War. Dept., 10/21/21, [19]21 October 21. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/74/74201e2727e1-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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Pershing Ofc., War. Dept., 10/21/21 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Pershing Ofc., War. Dept., 10/21/21
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This glass negative records the office of General John J. Pershing at the War Department in Washington, dated October 21, 1921. Pershing had become Army Chief of Staff that summer, after commanding American forces in France during the First World War, so the room would have been a center of the postwar peacetime Army. The National Photo Company, a Washington commercial studio active in the early twentieth century, photographed the city's government offices and officials on glass plates like this one. Look for the streaks and blemishes across the surface, which result from the natural deterioration of the original emulsion coatings.
| Created / published | [19]21 October 21. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,048 × 4,369 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-251681 |
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