Place de Concorde, Paris, February, France, 1919 – Antique Photo Print
(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 image of Place de Concorde, Paris, February, France, 1919. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Place de Concorde [sic], Paris, France, February, 1919
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Place de Concorde, Paris, February, France, 1919
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In February 1919, Paris was a city recovering from four years of war, and the Place de Concorde sat at the center of its ceremonial axis between the Tuileries Gardens and the Champs-Élysées. The Paris Peace Conference had opened in January at the Quai d'Orsay, bringing diplomats, delegations and journalists to the French capital. Daily life was still marked by shortages of coal and food and by the grief of families who had lost sons and husbands at the front. The statue of Strasbourg on the square, draped in black since the German annexation of Alsace in 1871, reminded residents that the old wounds the peace talks aimed to settle were still raw.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | schutz group photographers (washington, d.c.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--France |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,181 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Place de Concorde [sic], Paris, France, February, 1919 |
| Reference | FRANCE Place de Concorde, Paris, February, 1919 |
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