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Washington Monument, view with Grand Army Encampment on grounds – Antique Print

Washington Monument, view with Grand Army Encampment on grounds, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Washington Monument, view with Grand Army Encampment on grounds, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Washington Monument 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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Washington Monument, view with Grand Army Encampment on grounds 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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Washington Monument, view with Grand Army Encampment on grounds

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The Washington Monument appears here with an encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic spread across its grounds. The GAR was the national organization of Union Civil War veterans, and it held several of its national encampments in Washington, D.C., where veterans gathered for reunions, parades, and business. The obelisk was finished in 1884 after decades of stalled construction, so by the time of such gatherings it had become a central civic landmark. The caption card does not record a date, so the photograph is best read as a document of the monument's role as a stage for national commemoration.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,229 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158961

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