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Street car wreck, 8th & F NE, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Photograph Print

Street car wreck, 8th & F NE, [Washington, D.C.], [1921] — historic photograph
Street car wreck, 8th & F NE, [Washington, D.C.], [1921]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Street car wreck, 8th & F NE, [Washington, D.C.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Street car wreck, 8th & F NE, [Washington, D.C.]

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A streetcar wreck at the corner of 8th and F Streets NE in Washington, D.C., is the subject of this picture, a reminder of how heavily electric streetcars ran through the city in the early twentieth century. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio active in the capital at the time, recorded street scenes and news events like this one on glass negatives. The date of about 1921 comes from negatives in the same range, not from a confirmed record of this accident. The streaks and blemishes on the glass come from deterioration of the original coating, not from the scene itself.

Created / published[1921]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. 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 one.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,399 × 4,315 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-232877

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