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Art class, Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Print

Art class, Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1920] — historic photograph
Art class, Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1920]. 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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Art class, Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Art class, Corcoran Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.]

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An art class at the Corcoran Art Gallery, the private museum that William Wilson Corcoran founded in Washington and opened in 1874, is the subject of this glass negative. The National Photo Company, a commercial firm that documented the capital and its institutions in the early twentieth century, made it, and the date of about 1920 is estimated from similar negatives in the same range. Worth noticing are the streaks and blemishes on the glass, which come from the natural deterioration of the original coatings rather than from the scene itself.

Created / published[ca. 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
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--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.}.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan7,178 × 5,577 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-258397

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