Washington Monument showing city, Washington, D.C., 1912 – Vintage 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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Washington Monument showing city, Washington, D.C., 1912 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: D.C. view from Washington Monument showing city of Washington, D.C.
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Washington Monument showing city, Washington, D.C., 1912
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Washington, D.C., in 1912 was a city of roughly 350,000 people, governed by presidentially appointed commissioners under a system that gave residents no vote for Congress or president. The Washington Monument, still unfinished in its upper section for decades after construction stalled during the Civil War and resumed in 1880, had only been completed in 1884 and dedicated in 1885, so by 1912 it stood as a fresh symbol of the capital's ambitions. The federal government was the city's main employer, and the streets below were crowded with clerks, streetcar riders, and visitors arriving by the growing rail network. From this height, the viewer would have seen a city still mixing open lawns and Potomac marshland with the emerging grid of government buildings.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington, D.C. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,300 × 1,015 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | D.C. view from Washington Monument showing city of Washington, D.C. |
| Reference | DC Washington Monument showing city 1912 |
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