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Anderson Building, U.S. Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C. – Antique Photo Print

Anderson Building, U.S. Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C., c1891. — historic print
Anderson Building, U.S. Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C., c1891.. Historic print 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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A window into the past: Anderson Building, U.S. Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C., preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Anderson Building, U.S. Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C.

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The Anderson Building stood on the grounds of the U.S. Soldiers' Home in northwest Washington, a veterans' residence that Congress founded in 1851 and that Abraham Lincoln knew well, since he spent summers at a cottage on the same grounds during the Civil War. This c1891 photogravure, issued by the New York firm of A. Witteman, shows the building as the home's residents and visitors would have seen it in the 1890s. Photogravure was a costly, finely detailed process that gave printed views a richness closer to a photograph, which explains why publishers used it for architectural subjects like this one.

Created / publishedc1891.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photogravure.
GenrePhotogravures 1890-1900.
NotesCopyright by A. Witteman, N.Y.C.
SubjectsUnited States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home--Buildings--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. Soldiers' homes--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,061 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161386

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