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Banana tree, Pan Am. Union, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

Banana tree, Pan Am. Union, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1909 and 1940] — historic photograph
Banana tree, Pan Am. Union, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1909 and 1940]. 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: Banana tree, Pan Am. Union, [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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Banana tree, Pan Am. Union, [Washington, D.C.]

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A banana tree growing at the Pan American Union building sets this view apart from the many exterior shots of the capital's monuments. The Beaux-Arts headquarters on Constitution Avenue, designed by Albert Kelsey and Paul Cret and completed in 1910, was built for the inter-American association that later became the Organization of American States, and its courtyard garden showcased tropical plants. The picture is a glass negative from the National Photo Company, a commercial firm that documented Washington sites in the early twentieth century, and the plate shows the streaks and clouding typical of aging emulsions.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1940]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Neg. is 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. 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 six.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,419 × 7,008 px · prints to 18 × 23 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-257755

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