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Bureau of Engraving and Printing – Vintage Print

Bureau of Engraving and Printing, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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The caption card ties this print to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the federal workshop in Washington, D.C., that produced paper money and postage stamps, and to the women who worked there. Frances Benjamin Johnston, who made the Bureau series, was a Washington photographer known for documenting daily work and workers in the city around the turn of the century. Women held a large share of the Bureau's hand-finishing and inspection jobs, so the picture offers a record of their place in a federal printing operation. The card gives no date, so its exact year remains unverified.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNo. 81373. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Printing; Ph. Ind.; Women--Employment; Stamps.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,174 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144223

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