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[Barber house, Washington, D.C. - bedroom] – Historic Print

[Barber house, Washington, D.C. - bedroom], [between 1890 and 1950] — historic photograph
[Barber house, Washington, D.C. - bedroom], [between 1890 and 1950]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Barber house, Washington, D.C. - bedroom] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Barber house, Washington, D.C. - bedroom]

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The bedroom of the Barber house in Washington is the focus here, a private room captured as a documented interior rather than a street view. The print comes from the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress, which holds many of her interior studies of American homes made in the decades around 1900. Johnston was known for photographing rooms with an eye to furnishings, woodwork, and the arrangement of domestic space, so the image offers a record of how a well-appointed Washington bedroom was decorated during the period.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1950.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 8977. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Geog.; Interiors.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170874

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