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Panama Legation, [New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Wall Art

Panama Legation, [New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D.C.], [between 1918 and 1928] — historic photograph
Panama Legation, [New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D.C.], [between 1918 and 1928]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Panama Legation, [New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D.C.]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Panama Legation, [New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D.C.]

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Few buildings on New Hampshire Avenue in the 1920s carried as much diplomatic weight as the Panama Legation, which marked the presence of a young Central American republic in the capital. Panama had gained independence from Colombia in 1903, and its Washington mission was among the many foreign legations that clustered in the Dupont Circle area as the city's embassy neighborhood took shape. The photograph comes from the National Photo Company, whose photographers documented Washington streets and buildings in the 1910s and 1920s. The record's address and date are provisional, drawn from the company's own notes and similar negatives. The glass plate also shows streaks and blemishes from the deterioration of its original coating.

Created / published[between 1918 and 1928]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 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 seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,426 × 5,152 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-262476

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