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[Van Ness House, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Photo Print

[Van Ness House, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1908] — historic photograph
[Van Ness House, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1908]. 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: [Van Ness House, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 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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[Van Ness House, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.]

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The subject here is a house rather than a public building: the Van Ness House at the corner of 17th Street and Constitution Avenue in Northwest Washington. The house belonged to the Van Ness family, whose name is tied to early 19th-century Washington society and property. The National Photo Company made this glass negative sometime between 1900 and 1908, when it was documenting the capital's streets and buildings for sale as postcards and views. Because many of the city's older mansions were torn down as the government expanded along Constitution Avenue, pictures like this one now record a vanished part of the neighborhood. Faint streaks on the glass are a sign of age in the original coating.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1908]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesUnverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve: Fair [...] Mansion. Date from Goode's Capitol losses, p. 32. 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.
SubjectsDwellings. United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,263 × 4,191 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-229414

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