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[Corcoran Gallery of Art, main gallery from balcony, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

[Corcoran Gallery of Art, main gallery from balcony, Washington, D.C.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Corcoran Gallery of Art, main gallery from balcony, Washington, D.C.], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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Looking down from a balcony, this view takes in the main gallery of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. William Wilson Corcoran, a banker and philanthropist, founded the museum, which opened in 1874 in a Second Empire building designed by James Renwick Jr. near the White House. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued photographs and color prints of American places, made this glass plate sometime between 1905 and 1915. The cracked lower left corner of the negative is a reminder of how fragile these plates were.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Negative cracked and broken, lower left. G 19" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039792. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsGalleries & museums. Interiors.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69282

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