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Columbus Day Memorial Celebration, Union Station, Washington, D.C., 1912 – Historic Reproduction

Columbus Day Memorial Celebration, Union Station, Washington, D.C., 1912, n/a — historic photograph
Columbus Day Memorial Celebration, Union Station, Washington, D.C., 1912, n/a. 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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Columbus Day Memorial Celebration, Union Station, Washington, D.C., 1912 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Columbus Day Memorial Celebration, Union Station, Washington, D.C., 1912

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Union Station, the Beaux-Arts rail terminal that had opened in 1907, provides the setting for this 1912 Columbus Day memorial observance. Such commemorations reflected the efforts of Italian American and other communities to win public recognition for the explorer, years before Columbus Day became a federal holiday in 1934. The glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news pictures from the Bain News Service that recorded public life in the capital during these years. The title was supplied by a cataloger rather than the photographer, so the exact details of the occasion are best read cautiously.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan4,108 × 3,341 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-12538

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