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[East(?) Front of the White House] – Historic Reproduction

[East(?) Front of the White House], [between ca. 1920 and 1930] — historic photograph
[East(?) Front of the White House], [between ca. 1920 and 1930]. 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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[East(?) Front of the White House] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The east front of the White House is the side most visitors saw first in the 1920s, since the East Wing entrance and the Pennsylvania Avenue approach were the usual points of arrival for official callers and tourists. The National Photo Company, a Washington firm that produced large numbers of commercial views of federal buildings and city scenes in the early twentieth century, made this print sometime in the 1920s, when the building was still the principal residence and office of the president and had not yet undergone the major structural rebuilding of the following decade. The title's question mark reflects the cataloguers' uncertainty about the exact vantage point, so the view is worth studying for its angle and the surrounding grounds.

Created / published[between ca. 1920 and 1930]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1930.
NotesPhotograph by National Photo Co.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1910-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,147 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162280

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