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[Van Ness House, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Van Ness House, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1908] — historic photograph
[Van Ness House, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1908]. 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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[Van Ness House, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.]

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The Van Ness House was a large residence on the corner of 17th Street and Constitution Avenue Northwest in Washington, a site now given over to federal buildings. The glass negative was made by the National Photo Company, a commercial studio that recorded the city's streets and buildings in the early 1900s, and the picture is dated to between 1900 and 1908. Historian James Goode lists the house among Washington's lost buildings, a reminder of how much of the city's 19th-century domestic architecture has disappeared. Streaks and small blemishes on the glass come from the natural breakdown of its original coating.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1908]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesUnverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves: Fair [...] Mansion. Date from Goode's Capitol losses, p. 32. 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.
SubjectsDwellings. United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,280 × 4,219 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-229416

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