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D.C. Washington. Dept. of Commerce Building. 1932 – Vintage Wall Art

D.C. Washington. Dept. of Commerce Building. 1932, c1932 March 3. — historic photograph
D.C. Washington. Dept. of Commerce Building. 1932, c1932 March 3.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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D.C. Washington. Dept. of Commerce Building. 1932 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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D.C. Washington. Dept. of Commerce Building. 1932

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Standing on Constitution Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets, the Department of Commerce Building was one of the largest federal office structures of its day, and this view captures it around 1932, when it was newly completed. The building was meant to consolidate the department's many bureaus under one roof. The caption card's subject tag for aquariums points to the public exhibit tanks maintained by the Bureau of Fisheries there. The photograph is worth a close look for its Classical Revival massing and the broad avenue that sets it off.

Created / publishedc1932 March 3.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ11085 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Aquariums; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,192 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144616

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