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Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1935] — historic photograph
Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1935]. 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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A window into the past: Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.]

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Few sculptures in the capital invite as much speculation as the hooded bronze figure in Rock Creek Cemetery, known as the Grief Monument. Augustus Saint-Gaudens made it in the late 1880s for Henry Adams, who commissioned it in memory of his wife, Marian Hooper Adams, after her death in 1885. The face beneath the hood is hidden in shadow, and visitors have debated its meaning ever since. This glass negative, made by the National Photo Company between about 1910 and 1935, records the memorial during the decades when the company photographed Washington's landmarks.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1935]
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 scan5,201 × 6,450 px · prints to 17 × 22 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-260572

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