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Office in the Sun Building, 1317 F St., N.W. – Historic Photograph Print

Office in the Sun Building, 1317 F St., N.W., [between 1890 and 1950] — historic photograph
Office in the Sun Building, 1317 F St., N.W., [between 1890 and 1950]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 cyanotype of an office in the Sun Building at 1317 F Street NW, a commercial address in downtown Washington, D.C. The cyanotype process, which produces a distinctive blue-and-white image, was inexpensive and was often used for copies and record documents rather than for fine art. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a prominent Washington photographer, made the original collection this print belongs to, and her work captured the city's offices, interiors, and buildings during the decades around 1900. The record gives a date range of 1890 to 1950 rather than a precise date, so the print's exact year is uncertain.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1950]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1890-1950.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 81476. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; B.I.; Ph. Ind.; Washington, D.C.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,202 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155470

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