Inauguration Hoover Washington, Washington, D.C., 1929 – Vintage Wall Art
(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 image captures Inauguration Hoover Washington, Washington, D.C., 1929 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Inauguration of President Hoover, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1929
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Inauguration Hoover Washington, Washington, D.C., 1929
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Washington, D.C., in March 1929 was a federal city of roughly half a million people, where government jobs and the civil service shaped daily life more than factories did. On March 4, 1929, Herbert Hoover took the oath of office on the East Portico of the Capitol, succeeding Calvin Coolidge and promising to carry forward the prosperity many Americans had enjoyed through the 1920s. The inaugural procession moved down Pennsylvania Avenue, where crowds lined the sidewalks and visitors arrived by train and streetcar from across the country. Few in those crowds could have guessed that the stock market crash of October 1929 was only months away and would soon overshadow the new administration's agenda.
| Created / published | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Creator | harris & ewing, desouza bros |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington, D.C. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,362 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Inauguration of President Hoover, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1929 |
| Reference | DC Inauguration Hoover Washington 1929 |
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