Looking down 16th St. from above Meridian Hill Park – Antique Wall Art
(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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Looking down 16th St. from above Meridian Hill Park comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Looking down 16th St. from above Meridian Hill Park
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Looking south from the heights of Meridian Hill Park, this view follows 16th Street as it runs in a nearly straight line toward the center of Washington, D.C. Albert W. Stevens, an Army Air Corps photographer known for his high-altitude work, made the photograph, and it was printed as a half-tone in the November 1931 issue of *National Geographic*. Aerial views like this were still new to most readers then, and they showed how the city's planned avenues and open spaces fit together from above.
| Created / published | 1931 Nov. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : half-tone. |
| Notes | Photograph by Albert W. Stevens. Illus. in: National Geographic, Nov. 1931. p. 550. No. ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 984 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149549 |
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