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Executive offices & White House, [Washington, D.C.] – Antique Wall Art

Executive offices & White House, [Washington, D.C.], [1925] — historic photograph
Executive offices & White House, [Washington, D.C.], [1925]. 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: Executive offices & White House, [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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Executive offices & White House, [Washington, D.C.]

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Here the camera turns from the White House itself to the executive offices beside it, a pairing that shows how the federal government had outgrown its original home by the 1920s. Those offices, housed in the large State, War and Navy Building completed in 1888, handled much of the day-to-day work of the presidency. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a commercial firm that documented Washington and the nation in the 1910s and 1920s, and its glass negatives often show streaks and blemishes from aging coatings, as this one does.

Created / published[1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller
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 six.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,948 × 4,255 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-256532

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