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[Lobby in Westchester Apartments, Washington, D.C.] / Horydczak, Washington, D.C. – Historic Reproduction

[Lobby in Westchester Apartments, Washington, D.C.] / Horydczak, Washington, D.C., [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1950] — historic photograph
[Lobby in Westchester Apartments, Washington, D.C.] / Horydczak, Washington, D.C., [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1950]. 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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[Lobby in Westchester Apartments, Washington, D.C.] / Horydczak, Washington, D.C.

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The lobby of the Westchester Apartments, rather than the building's exterior, is the focus of this view of a Washington, D.C., residence. Theodor Horydczak, a Latvian-born photographer who recorded the capital's architecture for decades, made the picture sometime between about 1920 and 1950, when apartment living was becoming a common way for city residents to settle in Washington. Lobbies from this period often used polished stone, decorative plasterwork and carefully chosen furnishings to signal comfort and respectability, so the image shows how such buildings presented themselves to tenants and visitors.

Created / published[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1950.
NotesNo. 2564-57.
SubjectsApartment houses--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1950. Lobbies--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,286 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184099

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