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[U.S. Naval Gun Factory. Wash. D.C. 2 men working at bench] – Antique Print

[U.S. Naval Gun Factory. Wash. D.C. 2 men working at bench], 1903 — historic photograph
[U.S. Naval Gun Factory. Wash. D.C. 2 men working at bench], 1903. 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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Two men work at a bench inside the Naval Gun Factory in Washington, D.C., one of the shops where the Navy built and repaired its heavy ordnance. The factory had been established at the Washington Navy Yard in the late 1880s, and by 1903 it was a major federal industrial site in the capital. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer known for documenting government institutions and working life, made the picture as a cyanotype, a blueprint-style process that gives the print its blue tone. The caption details come from unverified old records, so the exact task at the bench is best read from the scene itself.

Created / published1903
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Guns; Tools; Occupations; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141820

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