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Studio in house of Edward Lind Morse, R St., Washington, D.C. – Antique Print

Studio in house of Edward Lind Morse, R St., Washington, D.C., [between 1890 and 1950] — historic photograph
Studio in house of Edward Lind Morse, R St., Washington, D.C., [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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A window into the past: Studio in house of Edward Lind Morse, R St., Washington, D.C., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Studio in house of Edward Lind Morse, R St., Washington, D.C.

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The studio pictured here is a working room inside the Washington, D.C., house of Edward Lind Morse, an artist, on R Street. Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the city's best-known photographers of the period, recorded many elegant private residences and their interiors, and her caption card tags this view with fireplaces and interiors. The image is a cyanotype, a contact print process that produces the characteristic white-on-blue tones and was widely used for inexpensive copies from the late 19th century into the early 20th. Because it documents a domestic workspace rather than a public building, it offers a useful glimpse of how artists furnished and lived in Washington homes around 1900.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1950]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1890-1950.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 4927. Caption card tracings: BI -- Residences; Fireplaces; Wash., DC -- Residences; FBJ Coll. Cat.; Ph. Ind.; Interiors SA; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,151 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139440

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