Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29 – Antique Wall Art
![Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29, [19]29 August 17. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8e/8ee88830c56f-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29
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Hoover's Rapidan camp, the rustic retreat in the Blue Ridge foothills of Virginia, is the subject here, and the date in the record, August 17, 1929, places the picture within Herbert Hoover's first summer as president. The camp sat on the Rapidan River and was a place where Hoover went to rest and work away from Washington. The image comes from the National Photo Company Collection, a commercial studio whose glass negatives recorded Washington life and public figures in the early twentieth century. Glass plates like this one can show streaks and surface damage from age, so the faint marks are a feature of the original medium rather than the scene itself.
| Created / published | [19]29 August 17. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. 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 four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,413 × 5,607 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-247003 |
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