Vintage Portrait - Washington DC - On job. Washington,. Jan. 19 – Vintage Photo Print
![Vintage Portrait - Washington DC - On job. Washington,. Jan. 19, [1938 or 1939] — historic image](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/97/979cddf54a7c-L.webp)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Vintage Portrait - Washington DC - On job. Washington,. Jan. 19. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Vintage Portrait - Washington DC - On job. Washington,. Jan. 19
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Harris & Ewing was a Washington, D.C., studio photography firm that operated from the 1900s into the 1940s, and this picture is one of its working-day portraits, taken on a January day in the late 1930s. The studio photographed a steady stream of government officials, diplomats, and ordinary residents who came to the capital, and its negatives built a large visual record of the city in those decades. The image's title suggests a sitter caught mid-assignment rather than posed in a formal studio setting, which makes it a useful glimpse of how the firm worked. Because the exact date is uncertain, it is best read as a circa 1938 or 1939 record of Washington life.
| Created / published | [1938 or 1939] |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Harris & Ewing |
| Original scan | 925 × 740 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HAR-98580 |
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