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Washington, D.C.: Maryland Ave. at 2nd St. N.E. – Vintage Wall Art

Washington, D.C.: Maryland Ave. at 2nd St. N.E., [between ca. 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
Washington, D.C.: Maryland Ave. at 2nd St. N.E., [between ca. 1900 and 1905]. 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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Step back in time with Washington, D.C.: Maryland Ave. at 2nd St. N.E., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Maryland Avenue was one of the diagonal avenues in Pierre L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the capital, cutting across the rectangular street grid toward the Capitol. Where it meets Second Street Northeast, the avenue runs through the blocks just east of the Capitol, a area of modest houses, small businesses, and the railroad lines that were reshaping the district at the turn of the century. The record dates the print to about 1900 to 1905, based on an older caption card whose details have not been independently checked. Street scenes from this period help show how the city's wide planned avenues looked before the later rebuilding of the Mall and the Union Station area.

Created / published[between ca. 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsWashington, D.C. Street Survey Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Wash. (DC)--Views--ea....; Wash (DC)--Streets; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,096 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141420

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