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[People standing in line at White House], 3/23/21 – Historic Print

[People standing in line at White House], 3/23/21, [19]21 March 23. — historic photograph
[People standing in line at White House], 3/23/21, [19]21 March 23.. Historic photograph from the White House 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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Step back in time with [People standing in line at White House], 3/23/21, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[People standing in line at White House], 3/23/21

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A line of people stands at the White House, captured on a glass negative whose record gives March 23, 1921, though that date is unverified. If accurate, the picture was taken only weeks into Warren G. Harding's presidency, which began March 4, 1921, so it shows the building at the start of a new administration. The image comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington studio whose plates documented city streets, monuments and public life in the early twentieth century. Glass negatives of this age often show streaks and clouding from deterioration of their coatings, and those flaws are part of what makes the plate worth studying.

Created / published[19]21 March 23.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Date from unverified data provided by the National 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 five.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,157 × 4,445 px · prints to 21 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-250772

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