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[Interior of John R. McLean House, 1500 I St., N.W., Washington, D.C. - dining room mantel] – Historic Reproduction

[Interior of John R. McLean House, 1500 I St., N.W., Washington, D.C. - dining room mantel], [ca. 1907] — historic photograph
[Interior of John R. McLean House, 1500 I St., N.W., Washington, D.C. - dining room mantel], [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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Step back in time with [Interior of John R. McLean House, 1500 I St., N.W., Washington, D.C. - dining room mantel], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The subject here is the mantel in the dining room of John R. McLean's house at 1500 I Street NW in Washington, a detail the photographer chose to isolate rather than the whole room. McLean, a newspaper publisher who later controlled the *Washington Post*, was one of the capital's prominent residents in the early twentieth century, and his home was the kind of showpiece that wealthy families of the period used to display taste and status. Frances Benjamin Johnston, who made this view around 1907, specialized in photographing architecture and interiors, often to record fine woodwork, carving and furnishings. Her close study of a single mantel shows how much attention Gilded Age and Progressive Era households gave to the fireplace as a focal point of a formal room.

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: Arch. -- Details; ; Washington, D.C. -- Houses; Mantels; BI -- Residences; Interiors; Geogr.; McLean, John Roll, 1848-1916; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,199 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137503

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