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[View of Washington Monument and Mall] – Vintage Photo Print

[View of Washington Monument and Mall], c1904. — historic photograph
[View of Washington Monument and Mall], c1904.. Historic photograph from the Washington Monument 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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Rather than a view of the monument as it stood, this picture is a plan: a rendering by Charles Graham showing how the grounds around the Washington Monument might be reshaped. It belongs to the City Beautiful movement and the Senate Park Commission of 1901, whose members, including Daniel Burnham, Charles McKim and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., proposed restoring Pierre L'Enfant's formal design for the National Mall. The Detroit Publishing Company reproduced such artwork as photographs, so the print preserves an artist's vision of a Mall that was still largely unbuilt when it was made.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print : silver gelatin ; image 29 x 52 cm.
Genre1901. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09836. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
NotesDetroit Photographic Co." Photograph of rendering by Charles Graham of proposed treatment of mall
SubjectsWashington Monument (Washington D.C.) Monuments & memorials. Parks.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 565 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-79082

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