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[Unidentified people outside office building] – Antique Photo Print

[Unidentified people outside office building], [1921] — historic photograph
[Unidentified people outside office building], [1921]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company 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 [Unidentified people outside office building], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Little is recorded about the people in this 1921 view, and the title notes that the caption has rubbed off the glass negative, so their identities and the building's name remain unknown. The plate belongs to the National Photo Company Collection, the commercial archive of a Washington, D.C. studio that documented city life, people and institutions in the early twentieth century. Glass negatives like this one were the standard medium of the period, and the streaks and blemishes noted in the record are typical of their aging coatings. Together they give a glimpse of everyday street life and office settings in the years after the First World War.

Created / published[1921]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Date from negatives in same range. Caption rubbed off This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. Temp. note: Batch two.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,446 × 4,427 px · prints to 18 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-234425

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