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Old Ford Theatre, 10th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and other buildings – Vintage Photo Print

Old Ford Theatre, 10th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and other buildings — historic photograph
Old Ford Theatre, 10th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and other buildings. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Old Ford Theatre, 10th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and other buildings. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Old Ford Theatre, 10th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and other buildings

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Few buildings in Washington carry as heavy a history as the theater on 10th Street, where John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. By the 1870s the building had been closed to audiences and given over to federal offices, including army medical and records units. The photograph belongs to the Brady-Handy collection, built from Mathew Brady's Civil War-era negatives and later expanded by Levin Handy to document the capital's streets and public buildings. The caption details for this view are unverified, so the exact vantage point and neighboring buildings are worth confirming.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 187-.
SubjectsBrady-Handy Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.--Theaters--Ford's; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135597

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