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D.C. Washington - Washington Monument - View at night from Treasury and across Basin – Vintage Print

D.C. Washington - Washington Monument - View at night from Treasury and across Basin, c1920 Dec. 28. — historic photograph
D.C. Washington - Washington Monument - View at night from Treasury and across Basin, c1920 Dec. 28.. 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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A window into the past: D.C. Washington - Washington Monument - View at night from Treasury and across Basin, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This nighttime view is taken from the Treasury grounds, looking west across the basin toward the Washington Monument, a vantage that puts the obelisk in a long, open setting rather than at its base. The record dates the print to about 1920, and it is a rare detail that the photographer chose to show the monument after dark. Construction of the obelisk, designed by Robert Mills, began in 1848, stalled for decades, and was finally completed in 1884, so by the 1920s it had long stood as a symbol of the nation's capital.

Created / publishedc1920 Dec. 28.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ245476 U.S. Copyright Office No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,101 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157566

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