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[Treasury Department - Secretary of the Treasury Department's office] – Historic Reproduction

[Treasury Department - Secretary of the Treasury Department's office], [between 1890 and 1950] — historic photograph
[Treasury Department - Secretary of the Treasury Department's office], [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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Treasury Department - Secretary of the Treasury Department's office]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few offices in Washington carry as much weight as the Secretary of the Treasury's, and this print shows that room within the Treasury Department building, which stands beside the White House. It comes from the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, the work of a photographer known for documenting federal buildings and the rooms where government business was carried out. The Treasury has managed the nation's finances since 1789, so its offices make a fitting subject for a series meant to record how Washington institutions looked around the turn of the twentieth century. The record gives only a broad date range, roughly 1890 to 1950, so the exact year of the picture remains uncertain.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1950.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geog.; Offices; U.S. Treas. Dept.; Washington, D.C.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 927 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158880

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