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Glen Echo Park Co. [Glen Echo, Maryland] – Vintage Photo Print

Glen Echo Park Co. [Glen Echo, Maryland], [1925] — historic photograph
Glen Echo Park Co. [Glen Echo, Maryland], [1925]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company 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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Glen Echo Park Co. [Glen Echo, Maryland] 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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Glen Echo Park, on the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland, was a popular amusement park by the 1920s, drawing city residents by streetcar for rides, dancing and summer outings. It grew out of an earlier Chautauqua assembly site, and its trolley connection to Washington made it an easy day trip. The National Photo Company made thousands of views of the Washington area in this period, and this glass negative documents the park during its heyday. Faint streaks and blemishes in the emulsion, the result of age, are visible in the original plate.

Created / published[1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 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 six.
SubjectsUnited States--Maryland--Glen Echo.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,938 × 4,266 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-256428

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