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Theodor Horydczak (15 April 1889 – 23 September 1971) was a Polish-American photographer best known for his early photographs of the places and events of Washington, DC.
Background and scope of the Collection
/ref> The Prints and Photographs catalog divides the collection into the following subject areas: *Business and Commerce *Memorial Bridge Construction *Cherry Blossoms *Washington, D.C. in Color *People The Prints and Photographs Division digitized Horydczak's photographic negatives, which can be found in their catalog.
Career
Horydczak was born in Lyck,Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
(now Poland) and emigrated in 1907. He is believed to have taken up photography during or after World War I, possibly while a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. His numerous "Washington as it Was" photographs are housed in the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...
Prints and Photographs Division in the James Madison Memorial Building
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He was known for his photographs of the exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential, and government buildings and of events such as the 1932 Bonus Army
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstration (protest), demonstrators—17,000 veterans of United States in World War I, U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-193 ...
encampment and the 1933 World Series.
He retired in 1959. Horydczak used a large-format Gold Ansco camera and typically used the photographic style called "bracketing," or taking many subsequent images at different aperture settings.
He married Frederica; they had a daughter Norma. He died in Montgomery, Pennsylvania
Montgomery is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,570 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is part of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Collection
The photographer's daughter and son-and-law, Norma and Francis Reeves, presented the collection, consisting of more than 32,000 items, including approximately 17,450 black-and-white photographs, 14,000 negatives, and 1,500 color transparencies, to the Library of Congress in 1973./ref> The Prints and Photographs catalog divides the collection into the following subject areas: *Business and Commerce *Memorial Bridge Construction *Cherry Blossoms *Washington, D.C. in Color *People The Prints and Photographs Division digitized Horydczak's photographic negatives, which can be found in their catalog.
References
External links
*http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/232/ * 1889 births 1971 deaths People from Ełk People from East Prussia Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States American photographers {{US-photographer-stub