Federal Writers Project,Washington,DC,African American Children Playing Baseball

Title: Federal Writers' Project images for a Washington, D.C., pictorial book
Related Names:
Federal Writers' Project.
Date Created/Published: ca. 1929-ca. 1940?
135 photomechanical prints : halftone, b&w ; 28 x 35 cm. or smaller.
31 photomechanical and photographic prints (postcards) : b&w and color ; 14 x 9 cm.
Summary: Primarily views of government, commercial, and religious buildings, memorials, and other structures. Includes among other subjects, the Washington Monument and Mall; the Scottish Rite Temple; the Washington Cathedral; the Stoddert House; St. Paul's Church; Lincoln Memorial; Arlington Memorial Bridge under construction; the tomb of the unknown soldier; Dumbarton House; Fort Lincoln Cemetery; Tudor Place; the Octagon House; the Patent Office building; the Capitol (from an 1865 photograph); views of the canal and houses in Georgetown; one image of African American children playing baseball in the rear of alley houses at London Court; several views of a peanut vendor on the Mall. Also includes reproductions of some Work Projects Administration murals; some views of a housing development in Greenbelt, Md. Postcards show exterior and interior views of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart; Dumbarton House; and the Universalist National Memorial Church.
Notes:
Arrangement: Organized by format into two subdivisions: Photographs and postcards (LOT 13331-1); Photomechanical prints and oversize images (LOT 13331-2).
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Includes four original negatives filed under: LC-MISC-23-001 to LC-MISC-23-004.
LOT also includes several city maps printed for publication in the pictorial book.
Some images bear the following photographer credits: W. Lincoln Highton; U.S. Army Corp.; Horydczak; Lewis P. Moltz; Resettlement Administration photos by Rothstein.
Transfer; Manuscript Division (U.S. Work Projects Administration records); 1980; (DLC/PP-1984:361).
Forms part of: Records of the U.S. Work Projects Administration.
Subjects:
Monuments & memorials--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1940.
Government facilities--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1940.
Churches--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1940.
Historic houses--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1940.
Gelatin silver prints--1920-1940.
Maps--1920-1940.
Photomechanical prints--1920-1940.
Postcards--1920-1940.
Bookmark /00649988/
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