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Middleburg, Va. Races – Historic Photo Reproduction

Middleburg, Va. Races, [between 1909 and 1940] — historic photograph
Middleburg, Va. Races, [between 1909 and 1940]. 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 Middleburg, Va. Races, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Middleburg, Va. Races

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Middleburg, a small town in Fauquier County, Virginia, is the setting for this glass negative, which records a race meeting of the sort that drew horse people from across the Virginia Piedmont in the early twentieth century. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C. firm that documented the city and surrounding region from about 1909 into the 1930s, produced the image, though the record gives only a date range and a title taken from the company's own notes, so the exact day and event are unconfirmed. The glass plate itself shows streaks and blemishes from the slow decay of its original coating, which gives the surface a worn, mottled character worth noticing.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1940]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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 six.
SubjectsUnited States--Virginia--Middleburg.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,926 × 4,306 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-257497

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