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Call Number/Catalog Number WY 2582.40
Title Shopping center on northeast corner of 49th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW.
Additional identifier SP 0052
Collection John P. Wymer photograph collection
Creator (Artist/Photographer/Author) Wymer, John P.
Description John P. Wymer's description: Shopping center at 49th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW. June 13, 1950.
Date 1950/06/13
Provenance From the John P. Wymer Collection, about 4000 images of Washington, D.C. taken from 1948 to 1952. Wymer divided the District into 57 areas and photographed sample blocks, including important buildings. The prints are kept in albums and captioned with location and dates. The finding aid is a map of Washington divided into Wymer's designated areas.
Classification Automobiles
Parking lots
Shopping centers
Quadrant NW
Street Number 0
Street Name Forty-ninth Street
Street Name (Cross Street) Massachusetts Avenue
Square 1499
Early date 1950
Object Name Print, Photographic
Medium Photographic Emulsion
Print size 3.0" x 4.5"
Orig/copy Original