Murrays Hotel Bryantown Md. – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Murrays Hotel Bryantown Md. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Murrays Hotel Bryantown Md.
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Bryantown, a small crossroads village in Charles County, Maryland, is the setting for this view of a hotel listed as Murray's, though the title comes from an unverified note on the negative sleeve. The glass plate was made in 1890 by the wet collodion process, which dry gelatin plates had largely replaced by then, so the image reflects a method already somewhat old-fashioned. The negative belongs to the Brady-Handy Collection, a group of plates tied to Mathew Brady's Washington studio and his associate Levin Handy, and the number 501 scratched into its emulsion shows how the plates were tracked.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative scratched into emulsion: 501. Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Brady-Handy Collection |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BRH-45939 |
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