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Model Room, Patent Office, Washington, D.C. – Historic Reproduction

Model Room, Patent Office, Washington, D.C., [ca. 1875] — historic photograph
Model Room, Patent Office, Washington, D.C., [ca. 1875]. 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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Model Room, Patent Office, Washington, D.C.

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The Model Room of the Patent Office in Washington, D.C., was a showcase of inventions, where working models submitted with patent applications were displayed in glass cases for the public to examine. This stereograph half records the room around 1875, when the Patent Office occupied the Patent Office Building (now the Smithsonian's Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum) and drew crowds of visitors curious about new machines. Because it is a single half of a stereo pair, the image was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The caption card's notes are unverified, so the exact date and photographer remain uncertain.

Created / published[ca. 1875]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto of stereo half, from Smithsonian Inst. Collections (neg. # 75626). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Archi.; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,472 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141392

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