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Dorothy Arrington & friends at White House – Historic Print

Dorothy Arrington & friends at White House, [1926] — historic photograph
Dorothy Arrington & friends at White House, [1926]. Historic photograph from the White House 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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A group of friends, identified in the title as Dorothy Arrington and her companions, stands at the White House in a picture the National Photo Company probably made around 1926. The company worked in Washington, D.C., and built a large body of street scenes, monuments and visitor portraits on glass negatives during the 1910s and 1920s, when photographs of the capital's landmarks were popular with residents and tourists alike. The title comes from notes on the negative sleeve and has not been verified, so the names and date should be read as provisional. Faint streaks and blemishes across the glass come from the coatings deteriorating over time, and they are part of the object's history.

Created / published[1926]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. 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 four.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,561 × 4,352 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-245325

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