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Willards Hotel, Washington, D.C. – Vintage Wall Art

Willards Hotel, Washington, D.C., ca. 1850. — antique engraving
Willards Hotel, Washington, D.C., ca. 1850.. Antique engraving 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 engraving captures Willards Hotel, Washington, D.C. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Willards Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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Few hotels in antebellum Washington were as tied to the city's public life as Willard's, which stood on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House and drew congressmen, office seekers and visiting dignitaries. This wood engraving, from the Willard Family Collection, presents the hotel as part of the everyday street life of the capital around 1850. The hotel's crowded lobby is often linked to the origin of the word "lobbying," and Abraham Lincoln stayed there in February 1861 before his inauguration. The print is worth a close look for its record of the building and its surroundings in the years before the Civil War.

Created / publishedca. 1850.
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenreWood engravings 1840-1860.
NotesWillard Family Collection.
SubjectsWillard Hotel (Washington, D.C.)--1840-1860. City & town life--Washington (D.C.)--1840-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,152 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163364

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