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Aerial views of Washington, D.C.: Washington Monument; Fed Triangle in backgrd. – Historic Print

Aerial views of Washington, D.C.: Washington Monument; Fed Triangle in backgrd. — historic photograph
Aerial views of Washington, D.C.: Washington Monument; Fed Triangle in backgrd.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Aerial views of Washington, D.C.: Washington Monument; Fed Triangle in backgrd. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Looking down on the Washington Monument with the Federal Triangle spread out behind it, this aerial view captures two very different chapters of the capital's building history. The obelisk, completed in 1884, stands on the National Mall, while the Federal Triangle was a large project of federal office buildings erected in the 1930s on land cleared of older blocks between the Mall and Pennsylvania Avenue. The photograph was made by Fairchild Aerial Survey of New York, a firm known for mapping and surveying from the air in that era. The record dates it only to between 1930 and 1940, so the exact day is uncertain, but the scene shows the city during its large-scale federal expansion.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[between 1930 and 1940]
SubjectsPhoto by Fairchild Aerial Survey, Inc., N.Y.C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.,--Federal Triangle; DC, Wash.--Galleries...; DC, Wash.--Monuments; DC, Wash.--Views--Aerial; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,215 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134793

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