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Skeleton Room National Museum Washington D.C. – Historic Print

Skeleton Room National Museum Washington D.C., 1900 — historic photograph
Skeleton Room National Museum Washington D.C., 1900. 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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The skeletons in this stereograph show the National Museum's exhibit halls in Washington, D.C., where bones were arranged for close study of animal anatomy. Victorian museums often displayed skeletons in long rows so visitors could compare how different species were built. The H.C. White Company of North Bennington, Vermont, was one of the largest publishers of stereograph cards, and its views were sold to tourists and households who looked at them through hand viewers. The record also lists the writer Bret Harte among the names attached to the card, a reminder that these views were often marketed as both entertainment and education.

Created / published1900
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
Notes1563 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White Co. · Harte Bret 1836-1902.
SubjectsSmithsonian Institution--Buildings--1900. Skeletons--Washington (D.C.)--1900. Exhibitions--Washington (D.C.)--1900. Galleries & museums--Washington (D.C.)--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Stereograph Cards
Original scan2,036 × 1,011 px · prints to 7 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-STV-271227

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