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[The new Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. - registration counter] – Historic Reproduction

[The new Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. - registration counter], [between 1890 and 1950] — historic photograph
[The new Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. - registration counter], [between 1890 and 1950]. 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 registration counter at the New Willard Hotel marks the point where guests checked in at one of Washington's most prominent hotels, a place where visiting officials and politicians often stayed. The hotel stood on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House, and its 1901 building replaced an earlier Willard that had long hosted members of Congress and other notable visitors. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a photographer who documented the capital's interiors and buildings, recorded the scene as a cyanotype, a blue-toned process that gives the image its distinctive color.

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). Caption card tracings: Geog.; Hotels; Interiors.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,207 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157269

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