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[The New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. - lobby] – Historic Print

[The New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. - lobby], [between 1890 and 1950] — historic photograph
[The New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. - lobby], [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 New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. - lobby]

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The lobby of the New Willard, which opened on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1901, was a place where senators, diplomats and lobbyists met to talk business. The earlier Willard, dating to the 1850s, had already drawn that crowd, and the term "lobbyist" is often traced to the men who waited in its public rooms to press their causes on Congress. This cyanotype comes from the Frances Benjamin Johnston collection, which documents Washington's buildings and interiors, and it shows the room's architecture and the open floor where that daily traffic unfolded.

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: Geogr.; Hotels.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,227 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156366

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