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Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Print

Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1935] — historic photograph
Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1935]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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Step back in time with Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Grief Monument, [Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.]

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Few monuments in the capital draw as many visitors as the bronze figure known as *Grief*, which sits in a granite alcove in Rock Creek Cemetery. Augustus Saint-Gaudens made it for Henry Adams, who commissioned the memorial for his wife, Marian Hooper Adams, after her death in 1885. The hooded, seated figure was completed in 1891 and has long been read as an image of sorrow without a fixed name. The National Photo Company, which recorded Washington streets and landmarks in the early twentieth century, made this glass negative sometime between about 1910 and 1935.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1935]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,196 × 6,444 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-260573

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