Mary Scott Townsend House, Wash., D.C.: Ballroom – Antique Print
![Mary Scott Townsend House, Wash., D.C.: Ballroom, [between 1890 and 1948] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/56/5643f3431129-L.webp)
(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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Mary Scott Townsend House, Wash., D.C.: Ballroom comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mary Scott Townsend House, Wash., D.C.: Ballroom
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This ballroom interior is part of Frances Benjamin Johnston's record of Washington, D.C., homes, and it shows a room built for large social gatherings in the days before such spaces were common in ordinary houses. Johnston, one of the period's leading photographers of architecture and interiors, often photographed the rooms of prominent residents to document their decoration and furnishings. The image is a cyanotype, a contact-print process that produces the distinctive blue tones associated with early blueprints. Because the record gives only a range of years, the exact date of the photograph is uncertain, but the process and subject place it in the decades around 1900.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1948] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : cyanotype. |
| Genre | Cyanotypes 1890-1950. |
| Notes | Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Townsend, Mary Scott--Homes & haunts--Washington (D.C.) Ballrooms--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,132 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162600 |
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