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Old house, 32nd St., NW, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

Old house, 32nd St., NW, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1918 and 1920] — historic photograph
Old house, 32nd St., NW, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1918 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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This rare historic photograph captures Old house, 32nd St., NW, [Washington, D.C.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Old house, 32nd St., NW, [Washington, D.C.]

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Few pictures in the collection show Georgetown's older streets as plainly as this view of an old house on 32nd Street NW, where worn cobblestones and utility poles share the frame with stone buildings. The National Photo Company, a commercial firm that photographed Washington for postcards and published views, made the glass negative sometime between 1918 and 1920, when overhead wires were a common sight on the city's older blocks. Herbert A. French donated the negative to the Library of Congress in 1947. Look for the streaks and blemishes across the plate, which come from deterioration of the original coating rather than from the scene itself.

Created / published[between 1918 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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.
SubjectsHouses. Cobblestone streets. Utility poles. Stone buildings. United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,198 × 4,170 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-229533

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