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[The White House]: South Front – Historic Print

[The White House]: South Front, [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph
[The White House]: South Front, [between 1909 and 1932]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [The White House]: South Front in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[The White House]: South Front

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The south front of the White House, with its broad lawn and formal gardens, is the side most visitors picture when they think of the presidential residence, and this National Photo Company view captures it in the years between 1909 and 1932. The National Photo Company operated in Washington during the early twentieth century, producing large numbers of commercial views of federal buildings and monuments for tourists and postcard makers. Its images give a useful record of how the grounds looked before later renovations and the 1948 rebuilding of the interior, and the gardens and lawn in pictures like this one show the carefully kept landscape that the public could see from the surrounding streets.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1932]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Photograph by National Photo Co.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1900-1940. Gardens--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,116 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162886

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