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Crowds, Metropolitan Theatre, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

Crowds, Metropolitan Theatre, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1920 and 1921] — historic photograph
Crowds, Metropolitan Theatre, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1920 and 1921]. 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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Crowds, Metropolitan Theatre, [Washington, D.C.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A dense crowd fills the scene at the Metropolitan theater, the F Street house in Washington, D.C., captured on an 8 by 6 inch glass negative by the National Photo Company. The theater opened in 1915 and presented vaudeville and, later, motion pictures, so the gathering points to the draw of a popular evening show in the years just after the First World War. The National Photo Company documented the capital's streets, storefronts and public life during this period, making its negatives a valuable record of the city. The title and the date of about 1920 to 1921 come from data written on the negative and from similar negatives in the collection, so some details may be provisional.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1921]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. 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 seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan7,146 × 5,562 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-258903

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