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[Washington, D.C., the Monument & Bureau of Engraving] – Historic Print

[Washington, D.C., the Monument & Bureau of Engraving], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Washington, D.C., the Monument & Bureau of Engraving], [between 1900 and 1920]. 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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The Washington Monument rises in the middle distance of this view, with the Bureau of Engraving visible at the far left edge, a detail the photographer chose to keep in frame. The picture is a glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, made sometime between 1900 and 1920, when the company was producing large-format views of American cities and landmarks for sale as souvenirs and travel prints. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which produces paper money and other federal securities, sat close enough to the Mall to appear alongside the obelisk, placing a working government building beside a symbol of national memory. The negative came to the State Historical Society of Colorado as a gift and entered the Library of Congress collection later.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Bureau of Engraving in far left background. Tape on negative is removable. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500016. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsUnited States.--Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.) Obelisks. Monuments & memorials. Government facilities. Parks.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan810 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74450

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