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Traffic, 14th & Thomas Circle [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

Traffic, 14th & Thomas Circle [Washington, D.C.], [1920] — historic photograph
Traffic, 14th & Thomas Circle [Washington, D.C.], [1920]. 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 Traffic, 14th & Thomas Circle [Washington, D.C.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Thomas Circle, where 14th Street meets Massachusetts and Vermont avenues in Northwest Washington, was a busy junction well before automobiles became common, and this negative records its traffic around 1920. The circle takes its name from Union Army general George H. Thomas, whose bronze statue has stood at its center since 1879. The National Photo Company, a commercial firm that photographed the capital's streets and monuments for sale in the early twentieth century, made the picture. The record gives the date only as an estimate based on neighboring negatives in the same range, and the glass plate shows streaks and blemishes from the natural breakdown of its original coating.

Created / published[1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. 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 one.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,137 × 4,159 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-231263

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