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[Ballroom in Larz Anderson house, Washington D.C.] – Historic Print

[Ballroom in Larz Anderson house, Washington D.C.], [between 1890 and 1940] — historic photograph
[Ballroom in Larz Anderson house, Washington D.C.], [between 1890 and 1940]. 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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[Ballroom in Larz Anderson house, Washington D.C.]

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The ballroom in the Larz Anderson house is the focus here, a formal interior in the Anderson residence on Dupont Circle in Washington. Larz Anderson, a diplomat who lived from 1866 to 1937, and his wife Isabel built the mansion as a showcase for entertaining and for their collection of European decorative arts. Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the most accomplished photographers working in the early twentieth century, documented many Washington interiors and buildings, and her pictures preserve the architectural detail of rooms like this one. The couple bequeathed the house to the Society of the Cincinnati, which still uses it today.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1940.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
SubjectsAnderson, Larz,--1866-1937--Homes & haunts--Washington (D.C.) Ballrooms--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1940. Architectural elements--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,240 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184807

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