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Franklin Park, a magnolia in March [...], Washington, D.C. – Vintage Print

Franklin Park, a magnolia in March [...], Washington, D.C. — historic drawing
Franklin Park, a magnolia in March [...], Washington, D.C.. Historic drawing 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 drawing of Franklin Park, a magnolia in March [...], Washington, D.C.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Franklin Park, a magnolia in March [...], Washington, D.C.

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Franklin Park, the downtown Washington square also known as Franklin Square, is the setting for this watercolor and ink drawing of a magnolia in early spring, made around 1918. The park had long offered a green refuge among the city's offices and hotels, and its trees were a familiar sight to people walking through on their way to work or errands. The magnolia's March bloom reflects how the capital's gardens announced the season well before summer, and the drawing preserves a small, everyday moment of city life from the decade after World War I began.

Medium1 drawing : watercolor and ink.
Notes[ca. 1918]
SubjectsMagnolias--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920. Franklin Square (Washington, D.C.)--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,017 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-224305

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