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Ball Room, American Legation, Lisbon – Antique Print

Ball Room, American Legation, Lisbon — historic photograph
Ball Room, American Legation, Lisbon. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Ball Room, American Legation, Lisbon

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The most distinctive thing about this picture is its setting: a ballroom inside the American Legation in Lisbon, Portugal, rather than a private home or a hotel. Legations were the diplomatic missions that the United States maintained in smaller capitals before many of them were upgraded to embassies, so the room would have served as a stage for official receptions and social gatherings tied to American representation abroad. The catalog notes date the photograph only to around 190-, a loose estimate that places it in the early twentieth century, when such interiors were often recorded to show the furnishings and grand spaces of government residences overseas.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 190-.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Embassies & Legations--Portugal; Interiors; Portugal; Dance--Ballroom; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,213 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129622

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