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[New National Museum of Natural History & gallery, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

[New National Museum of Natural History & gallery, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1915] — historic photograph
[New National Museum of Natural History & gallery, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1915]. 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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Step back in time with [New National Museum of Natural History & gallery, Washington, D.C.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[New National Museum of Natural History & gallery, Washington, D.C.]

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Few buildings on the National Mall were as ambitious as the New National Museum, whose Beaux-Arts facade anchors this view from the years just before the First World War. Completed in 1910 to hold the growing collections of the Smithsonian's U.S. National Museum, it was later renamed the National Museum of Natural History. The Detroit Publishing Company, known for its photographs of American towns, landmarks and scenery around the turn of the century, recorded the building on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, a large format favored for detailed architectural work.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8014" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039989. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsGalleries & museums.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69386

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