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[Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

[Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.]

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This view of Pennsylvania Avenue, the broad boulevard linking the Capitol and the White House, shows a stretch of the city's commercial life in the years before 1910. The glass negative is an 8 x 10 inch plate, and its handwritten "945 G" marking may point to a location or a reference number, though the record does not say which. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the 1920s, made many street scenes like this one for sale to travelers and collectors. Its catalog was later donated to the Library of Congress, and this plate arrived there as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 945 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033133. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66461

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