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Georgetown Convent, Wash., D.C – Historic Print

Georgetown Convent, Wash., D.C, [between 1890 and 1950] — historic photograph
Georgetown Convent, Wash., D.C, [between 1890 and 1950]. 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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Georgetown Convent, Wash., D.C

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The Georgetown Convent was home to the Visitation Sisters, a Catholic religious community that opened a school for girls in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington in the late 1700s, one of the oldest continuously operating institutions in the city. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a photographer who documented American buildings and daily life, made this view as part of her Washington work, and her large body of architectural photographs now forms a major part of the Library of Congress holdings. The record dates the print only to between 1890 and 1950, so the exact year is uncertain. The image still shows how a religious institution and its grounds presented themselves to the public in that era.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1950.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 886. Washington, D.C.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,203 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110378

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