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National Guard camp? – Vintage Wall Art

National Guard camp?, [between 1912 and 1930] — historic photograph
National Guard camp?, [between 1912 and 1930]. 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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The record gives a title posed as a question, "National Guard camp?", so the picture is probably a view of a temporary encampment of citizen-soldiers, though the question mark signals that the identification was never confirmed. It is a glass negative from the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C. firm that documented the nation's capital and beyond in the early twentieth century, and its date falls somewhere between 1912 and 1930. Those years saw the National Guard grow and modernize, including large summer training camps where tents and drilling grounds became familiar sights. The negative's donor, Herbert A. French, gave it in 1947, and its surface shows some streaking from the aging of its coating.

Created / published[between 1912 and 1930]
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. 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 six
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,107 × 4,375 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-257333

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