Franciscan Monastery, Brookland – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Franciscan Monastery, Brookland, [between 1908 and 1919] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a0/a063927b647a-L.webp)
(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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This historic photograph of Franciscan Monastery, Brookland brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Franciscan Monastery, Brookland
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Built by Franciscan friars in Brookland, Northeast Washington, beginning around 1899, the monastery grew into a complex of buildings and gardens used for study and devotion. It is known for its outdoor replicas of Holy Land shrines, which let visitors visit sites associated with Jerusalem without leaving the District. The National Photo Company made this glass negative sometime between 1908 and 1919, during the monastery's early decades of expansion. Streaks and blemishes on the glass come from the natural deterioration of its original coating, and they give the image a worn, uneven texture worth noticing.
| Created / published | [between 1908 and 1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title 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 five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,949 × 4,267 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-249100 |
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