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People on the Capitol lawn, historic black-and-white photograph – Antique Photo Print

People on the Capitol lawn, historic black-and-white photograph — historic photograph
People on the Capitol lawn, historic black-and-white photograph. Historic photograph from the Easter collection.

(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: People on the Capitol lawn, historic black-and-white photograph, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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People on the Capitol lawn, historic black-and-white photograph

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Visitors fill the open lawn in this black-and-white photograph, with the grounds of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., as the setting. The Capitol lawn has long drawn large crowds for public celebrations, demonstrations, and holiday outings, and spring visits around Easter were part of that tradition. Black-and-white film was the standard for news and documentary photography for much of the twentieth century, so scenes like this one offer a useful record of how people shared public space on a holiday.

Original scan5,948 × 4,267 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi
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