Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29 – Antique Wall Art
![Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29, [19]29 August 17. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c2/c24bb74ece67-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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A window into the past: Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hoover camp on the Rapidan, 8/17/29
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Hoover's camp on the Rapidan River in Virginia is the setting here, a retreat in the Blue Ridge foothills that the president used for weekends and rest. The National Photo Company, a Washington commercial studio that documented government officials and public events in the early twentieth century, made this glass negative in August 1929, a few months after Hoover took office. Glass plates of this size were the standard working medium of the period, and the streaks and blemishes visible on the surface come from age and deterioration of the original coating rather than from the subject itself.
| Created / published | [19]29 August 17. |
|---|---|
| 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 negative or negative sleeve. 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 four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,587 × 4,366 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-246998 |
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