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[Aerial view of Washington, D.C., downtown area] – Vintage Wall Art

[Aerial view of Washington, D.C., downtown area], [192-?] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Washington, D.C., downtown area], [192-?]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Aerial view of Washington, D.C., downtown area]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Aerial view of Washington, D.C., downtown area]

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Few views of the city from this height survive from the 1920s, when aerial photography was still a young craft. Taken from an airplane, the picture shows downtown Washington as a grid of streets, rooftops, and open green space rather than as a set of street-level facades. The decade was a period of federal building in the capital, and the Federal Triangle redevelopment, which would reshape the area between the Capitol and the White House, was taking shape around these years. The exact date is uncertain, so the record's "192-?" marks it as sometime in the 1920s.

Created / published[192-?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.Aerial photographs 1920-1930.
SubjectsWashington (D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,069 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167451

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