Old Spring House, Rock Creek Park – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Old Spring House, Rock Creek Park, [between 1918 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7e/7e060d268569-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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Old Spring House, Rock Creek Park in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Old Spring House, Rock Creek Park
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Rock Creek Park, the wooded valley that runs through northwest Washington, D.C., holds a number of older stone structures, and this glass negative records one of its springhouses, a small building once used to keep milk, butter and other perishables cool over running water. Springhouses like this one predate the park's creation as a federal reserve, when the land was farms and mills along the creek. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio active in Washington in the early twentieth century, produced views like this for sale to visitors and publishers. The negative is a glass plate dated roughly between 1918 and 1920, and its surface shows streaks and blemishes from age.
| Created / published | [between 1918 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. 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 one. |
| Subjects | Springhouses. Stone buildings. United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.) Rock Creek Park. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,280 × 4,257 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-229510 |
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