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[A visit to the Library of Congress] – Antique Print

[A visit to the Library of Congress], [1899?] — historic photograph
[A visit to the Library of Congress], [1899?]. Historic photograph from the Library of Congress collection.

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A cyanotype titled *A visit to the Library of Congress* records a day spent inside the institution, probably around 1899, though the date is uncertain. The Library had moved into its new Jefferson Building only a couple of years earlier, in 1897, so visitors of this period were touring a freshly completed marble building. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer known for documenting the city's institutions and people, made the print, which survives in an album labeled "8th Division." Cyanotypes use an inexpensive iron-based process that yields the blue-and-white tones visible here.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1890-1900.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). In album: 8th Division.""
SubjectsEducation--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan6,347 × 5,062 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110379

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