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[Taxicabs in Washington, D.C.: Red Star" - Capitol in bg.]" – Vintage Print

[Taxicabs in Washington, D.C.: Red Star" - Capitol in bg.]" — historic photograph
[Taxicabs in Washington, D.C.: Red Star" - Capitol in bg.]". 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: [Taxicabs in Washington, D.C.: Red Star" - Capitol in bg.]", 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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Red Star cabs are the subject here, with the Capitol rising in the background, so the picture places a working taxi fleet beside the nation's most recognizable building. The Red Star name points to one of the private taxi operators that filled Washington's streets in the late 1920s, when cabs were a common way for government workers, visitors and residents to get across the city. Setting everyday traffic against the Capitol dome was a familiar way for photographers of the period to tie the city's street life to its national symbol. Dated to about 1929, the scene records the cars and streets of that era as much as the building itself.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1929.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,215 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121419

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