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Pan Am. Union, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

Pan Am. Union, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1925] — historic photograph
Pan Am. Union, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 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: Pan Am. Union, [Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Pan Am. Union, [Washington, D.C.]

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Few buildings in Washington speak as directly to hopes for hemispheric cooperation as the Pan American Union headquarters, shown here in a glass negative from the National Photo Company. Designed by Albert Kelsey and Paul Cret and completed in 1910 with funds from Andrew Carnegie, the building housed the organization that coordinated relations among the American republics. Its courtyard and Spanish-inspired architecture were meant to express friendship among the Americas. The negative's date range places the picture in the decade after the building opened, when the Union was becoming a fixture on Constitution Avenue.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1925]
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 scan6,896 × 5,314 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261009

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