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[The Observatory, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Wall Art

[The Observatory, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[The Observatory, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 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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A window into the past: [The Observatory, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[The Observatory, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.]

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The camera caught the Georgetown University observatory, a stone tower on the Jesuit campus in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Jesuits founded the observatory in the 1840s, and it became one of the older scientific institutions in the capital, used for astronomical and meteorological observation. This view comes from a large glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its broad survey of American places in the decade around 1900. The plate's size, 8 by 10 inches, reflects the detail that photographers of that era could record in a single exposure.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 1783" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033485. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUniversities & colleges. Astronomical observatories.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66738

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