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[Whittemore House, Washington, D.C. - interior of parlor, showing decorations] – Historic Print

[Whittemore House, Washington, D.C. - interior of parlor, showing decorations], [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
[Whittemore House, Washington, D.C. - interior of parlor, showing decorations], [ca. 1900]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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The subject here is the parlor of the Whittemore House in Washington, D.C., shown with its decorations rather than its architecture alone, so the room's furnishings and ornament are the focus. The picture dates to about 1900, a period when fashionable Washington homes were often filled with layered textiles, patterned wall coverings, and carefully arranged objects. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer who recorded many interiors and buildings around the turn of the century, made the image, and it is now held in the Library of Congress. Her interior views are valued today as records of how well-to-do households decorated their rooms in that era.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,223 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116468

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