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Govt. Hospital for Insane, Hitchcock Hall, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

Govt. Hospital for Insane, Hitchcock Hall, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1925] — historic photograph
Govt. Hospital for Insane, Hitchcock Hall, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1925]. 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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Govt. Hospital for Insane, Hitchcock Hall, [Washington, D.C.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Govt. Hospital for Insane, Hitchcock Hall, [Washington, D.C.]

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Hitchcock Hall stood on the grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane, the federal institution in Washington that Congress founded in 1855 after Dorothea Dix campaigned for better care of people with mental illness. The National Photo Company, which documented the city extensively in the 1910s and early 1920s, recorded the campus while it still carried its original name, before it became St. Elizabeths in 1916. The glass plate shows streaks and blemishes from the gradual breakdown of its original coating, a reminder of how fragile these early negatives are.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,478 × 5,144 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261207

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