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[Interior of Parker Mann house, Washington, D.C. - room filled with paintings] – Vintage Print

[Interior of Parker Mann house, Washington, D.C. - room filled with paintings], [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1910] — historic photograph
[Interior of Parker Mann house, Washington, D.C. - room filled with paintings], [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1910]. 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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A crowded room hung floor to ceiling with paintings is the defining feature of this view of the Parker Mann house in Washington, D.C. The photograph is part of Frances Benjamin Johnston's work from the 1890s through the early 1900s, when she recorded the interiors of the capital's homes and studios. Its caption tracings, including "Art Galleries" and "Artists Studios," suggest the room was valued as a space for displaying art. The cyanotype process, which produces the image's distinctive blue tones, was inexpensive and widely used at the time, so the print also shows how photographers documented domestic interiors before color photography.

Created / published[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1910]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1910.Cyanotypes 1890-1910.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind.; Interiors; Art Galleries; Artists Studios; B.I.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,209 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141490

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