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[Rochambeau statue, Lafayette Park (Square), Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

[Rochambeau statue, Lafayette Park (Square), Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Rochambeau statue, Lafayette Park (Square), 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: [Rochambeau statue, Lafayette Park (Square), 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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[Rochambeau statue, Lafayette Park (Square), Washington, D.C.]

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The Rochambeau statue in Lafayette Square stands as the subject here, a bronze honoring Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), the French general who commanded the expeditionary force that fought alongside Washington's Continental Army. The monument was dedicated in 1902 and sits across from the White House, which places it at the center of the city's ceremonial landscape. Made as a dry plate glass negative around 1900 to 1910, the view belongs to the Detroit Publishing Company's large body of commercial photographs, prized for their sharp detail and early color-tinted printing methods.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 1660" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033472. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur,--Comte de,--1725-1807--Statues. Parks. Sculpture.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan806 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66725

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