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[Composite of eight buildings in Washington, D.C.--St. James Hotel, the Ebbitt House, Riggs House, Metropolitan Hotel, National Hotel, The Arlington, Willard's Hotel, and the Baltimore & Potomac R.R. Depot] – Antique Photo Print

[Composite of eight buildings in Washington, D.C.--St. James Hotel, the Ebbitt House, Riggs House, Metropolitan Hotel, National Hotel, The Arlington, Willard's Hotel, and the Baltimore & Potomac R.R. Depot], [between 1882 and 1900] — antique lithograph
[Composite of eight buildings in Washington, D.C.--St. James Hotel, the Ebbitt House, Riggs House, Metropolitan Hotel, National Hotel, The Arlington, Willard's Hotel, and the Baltimore & Potomac R.R. Depot], [between 1882 and 1900]. Antique lithograph 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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This rare antique lithograph captures [Composite of eight buildings in Washington, D.C.--St. James Hotel, the Ebbitt House, Riggs House, Metropolitan Hotel, National Hotel, The Arlington, Willard's Hotel, and the Baltimore & Potomac R.R. Depot] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Composite of eight buildings in Washington, D.C.--St. James Hotel, the Ebbitt House, Riggs House, Metropolitan Hotel, National Hotel, The Arlington, Willard's Hotel, and the Baltimore & Potomac R.R. Depot]

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This print gathers eight Washington buildings onto a single sheet: seven hotels, including the St. James, the Ebbitt House, Willard's and the National, along with the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad depot. Composites like this were typical of late nineteenth-century souvenir view books, which let visitors and local boosters see a city's principal lodgings and its rail gateway at a glance. Photolithography, which turned photographs into printable plates, made such inexpensive multi-view pages practical. Placing so many hotels beside the railway station also suggests how much of the capital's travel and business ran through these addresses in the years before 1900.

Created / published[between 1882 and 1900]
Medium1 photomechanical print : photolithograph.
GenrePhotolithographs 1880-1900.
NotesGlaser/Frey Collection of American View Books (Library of Congress) In album, p. 27.
SubjectsHotels--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1900. Railroad stations--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,023 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163714

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