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Soldiers' Home, exterior showing house, Washington, D.C – Vintage Wall Art

Soldiers' Home, exterior showing house, Washington, D.C, [ca. 1895] — historic photograph
Soldiers' Home, exterior showing house, Washington, D.C, [ca. 1895]. 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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Soldiers' Home, exterior showing house, Washington, D.C

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Few places in Washington carry as much Civil War memory as the Soldiers' Home grounds on the city's northern edge, and this exterior view shows the main house set among trees. Congress established the home in 1851 as a residence for aging veterans of the regular army, and President Abraham Lincoln spent summers in the nearby Anderson Cottage during the war years. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer who documented the city and its institutions, made this picture around 1895. It presents the house as a settled, peaceful institution rather than a wartime setting.

Created / published[ca. 1895]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Formerly Geog. File - WASHINGTON, D.C. -- NURSING HOMES -- SOLDIERS' HOME. 0286E1." Caption card tracings: Washington
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,227 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110025

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