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[The Spinning room, Washington's headquarters (i.e. Morris-Jumel mansion), New York, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[The Spinning room, Washington's headquarters (i.e. Morris-Jumel mansion), New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[The Spinning room, Washington's headquarters (i.e. Morris-Jumel mansion), New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Few rooms in Manhattan are tied to the Revolution as directly as the one in this glass negative, which the Detroit Publishing Company titled the spinning room at Washington's headquarters, the Morris-Jumel mansion. The house stands on a rise in Harlem Heights, and Washington used it as his base in September 1776, as American forces fought nearby and then withdrew. The catalog also tags the view with spinning apparatus, a reminder of the household textile work that filled colonial homes. The company's photographers traveled widely in the early 1900s, and this 8-by-10-inch plate, dated roughly 1905 to 1915, records the interior as it appeared during that period.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043825. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsWashington, George,--1732-1799--Homes & haunts. Military headquarters. Dwellings. Interiors. Spinning apparatus. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70586

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