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[Interior of John R. McLean House, 1500 I St., N.W., Washington, D.C. - music room with flowers] – Historic Print

[Interior of John R. McLean House, 1500 I St., N.W., Washington, D.C. - music room with flowers], [ca. 1907] — historic photograph
[Interior of John R. McLean House, 1500 I St., N.W., Washington, D.C. - music room with flowers], [ca. 1907]. 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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This photograph shows the music room of the John R. McLean house at 1500 I Street NW in Washington, D.C., with cut flowers arranged in the room. McLean was the publisher and owner of the *Washington Post* and the son of a prominent Cincinnati newspaper family, and his residence was one of the large private houses in the city's downtown district around 1907. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a photographer who documented architecture and interiors in Washington during this period, made the picture. Such images record how wealthy households furnished and decorated their rooms in the early 1900s, when flowers, instruments and upholstered furniture signaled a family's taste and social standing.

Created / published[ca. 1907]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Architecture -- Details; ; Washington, D.C. -- Houses; BI -- Residences; Interiors; Geogr.; McLean, John Roll, 1848-1916; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137504

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