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[Bond Building, 14th Street and New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Photo Print

[Bond Building, 14th Street and New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.], [1949 July 4] — historic photograph
[Bond Building, 14th Street and New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.], [1949 July 4]. 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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[Bond Building, 14th Street and New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.]

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Taken on the Fourth of July in 1949, this view centers on the Bond Building at the corner of 14th Street and New York Avenue Northwest, a downtown intersection where office blocks and shops lined the diagonal avenue that cuts across the city grid. Joseph S. Allen made the print as part of a group of photographs of Washington's commercial and office buildings, a record of the city's architecture in the years after World War II. The holiday date is worth noticing, since it was a day when the downtown would have looked different from its usual workday bustle.

Created / published[1949 July 4]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenreGelatin silver prints 1940-1950.
NotesTitle transcribed from caption card. Photograph by Joseph S. Allen. In album: District of Columbia (Album 6) - Universities, Colleges, Secondary, Elementary & Special schools ; Commercial buildings & Office buildings. Joseph S. Allen Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsCommercial facilities--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,288 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181751

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