Bureau of Standards – Vintage Photo Print
![Bureau of Standards, [between 1910 and 1925] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b4/b4c5c7772616-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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Bureau of Standards. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The subject is the Bureau of Standards, the federal laboratory in Washington that has maintained the nation's measurement standards since its founding in 1901. The title comes from a notation the National Photo Company wrote on the negative or its sleeve, though it has not been independently verified. The company was a Washington firm that recorded government buildings and city life in the years around 1910 to 1925. Viewers should also note the streaks and blemishes on the glass, which the record attributes to natural deterioration of the original coating.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1925] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 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 seven. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,455 × 5,134 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-261026 |
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