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White House, Conservatory – Vintage Print

White House, Conservatory, 1889 — historic photograph
White House, Conservatory, 1889. Historic photograph from the White House 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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A window into the past: White House, Conservatory, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Glass-roofed greenhouses on the grounds of the Executive Mansion supplied plants for the house, and this 1889 view shows the conservatory that stood against the building's side. Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the first professional women photographers in Washington, made the image during the years when she recorded the city's public buildings and the people who worked in them. The conservatory was built in the 1850s and was torn down in 1902, when the mansion was enlarged and the West Wing was added, so the photograph preserves a feature of the house that no longer exists.

Created / published1889
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1890.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1880-1890. Greenhouses--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162659

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