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[The future Washington, bird's-eye view, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Wall Map

[The future Washington, bird's-eye view, Washington, D.C.], [between 1902 and 1910] — historic photograph
[The future Washington, bird's-eye view, Washington, D.C.], [between 1902 and 1910]. 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 [The future Washington, bird's-eye view, Washington, D.C.] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This picture is not a street view but a bird's-eye rendering of Washington as its planners hoped it would look, signed by F.L.V. Hoppin and preserved as an 8 x 10 inch glass negative. The design is probably tied to the Senate Park Commission, popularly called the McMillan Commission, which in the early 1900s proposed linking the capital's parks, the National Mall, and its monuments into a unified civic landscape. The Detroit Publishing Company, known for its views of American places, reproduced the drawing, so the image preserves an artist's vision of a city still largely in the future.

Created / published[between 1902 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Genreprobably for the McMillan Commission. G 1758" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033482. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
NotesTitle from jacket. Photo of rendering signed F.L.V. Hoppin
SubjectsParks.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66735

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