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Executive Mansion, N. front – Historic Print

Executive Mansion, N. front, 1859 June 7. — historic photograph
Executive Mansion, N. front, 1859 June 7.. Historic photograph from the White House 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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The north front of the Executive Mansion, as the White House was then called, appears here in a salted paper print dated June 7, 1859. It belongs to the album kept by Benjamin Brown French, a Washington figure who served as commissioner of public buildings and who gathered photographs of the capital's major structures. Salted paper prints like this one were made from paper negatives, a process that gave early views a soft, warm tone and a texture quite unlike later silver prints. Pictures of the Executive Mansion from this decade are valuable today for showing the building and its grounds before the changes of the Civil War years.

Created / published1859 June 7.
Medium1 photographic print : salted paper ; 29 x 44 cm.
NotesTitle from item. In album: Benjamin Brown French Photographs
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,140 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158125

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