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Aerial view of southwest waterfront with the Mall buildings in the background – Vintage Photo Print

Aerial view of southwest waterfront with the Mall buildings in the background — historic photograph
Aerial view of southwest waterfront with the Mall buildings in the background. 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: Aerial view of southwest waterfront with the Mall buildings in the background, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Aerial view of southwest waterfront with the Mall buildings in the background

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From above, this view shows the working edge of Washington's southwest waterfront, where piers and wharves jutted into the Washington Channel of the Potomac River, with the monumental government buildings of the Mall rising in the distance. In the 1940s the district was a crowded mix of docks, warehouses, and fish markets, set against the federal city's grand public core. Aerial photographs from this period were often made for planning and documentation, and they capture a neighborhood that was soon transformed by postwar urban renewal.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[between 1940 and 1950]
SubjectsPiers & wharves--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950. Waterfronts--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950. Government facilities--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950. Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,092 × 4,152 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-211518

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