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Blodget's Hotel - 1793 - afterwards the General Post Office [Washington, D.C.] – Antique Print

Blodget's Hotel - 1793 - afterwards the General Post Office [Washington, D.C.], [between ca. 1860 and 1918] — antique engraving
Blodget's Hotel - 1793 - afterwards the General Post Office [Washington, D.C.], [between ca. 1860 and 1918]. Antique engraving 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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Blodget's Hotel - 1793 - afterwards the General Post Office [Washington, D.C.] comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Blodget's Hotel - 1793 - afterwards the General Post Office [Washington, D.C.]

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Blodget's Hotel, built in 1793 on Washington's early streets, was one of the first large buildings the young federal city saw, and it was a speculative venture by Samuel Blodget, a land promoter who hoped to profit from the capital's growth. The hotel's ambitions outran its finances, and Blodget's fortunes faded, but the building outlived him and later served the government as the General Post Office. This wood engraving, probably made decades after the hotel's construction, shows how the structure looked in its later public role. The record's date range is broad, so the print is best read as a view of the city's early history seen through a later lens.

Created / published[between ca. 1860 and 1918]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesWilhelmus Bogart Bryan Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Post Offices; Hotels.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 796 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108477

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