Cardinal Gibbons at cornerstone laying at shrine of the Immaculate Conception – Vintage Wall Art
![Cardinal Gibbons at cornerstone laying at shrine of the Immaculate Conception, [1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b7/b7a34bb30c80-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.)
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This historic photograph of Cardinal Gibbons at cornerstone laying at shrine of the Immaculate Conception brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cardinal Gibbons at cornerstone laying at shrine of the Immaculate Conception
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Cardinal James Gibbons, the longtime archbishop of Baltimore and one of the most prominent American Catholic leaders of his era, is the focus of this view of a cornerstone laying at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The shrine, now the Basilica of the National Shrine, was planned as a national place of Catholic worship and grew slowly over many decades. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio that documented civic and religious events in the early twentieth century, made the negative, and the date of about 1920 is an estimate based on neighboring negatives. Faint streaks and blemishes from the aging glass coating are visible.
| Created / published | [1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. 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 one. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,387 × 4,356 px · prints to 18 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-231715 |
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