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Staircase of the Alexander Graham Bell home at 1331 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., as it was when Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Bell died – Historic Reproduction

Staircase of the Alexander Graham Bell home at 1331 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., as it was when Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Bell died, 1923 Jan. — historic photograph
Staircase of the Alexander Graham Bell home at 1331 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., as it was when Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Bell died, 1923 Jan.. 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 Staircase of the Alexander Graham Bell home at 1331 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., as it was when Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Bell died. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Staircase of the Alexander Graham Bell home at 1331 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., as it was when Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Bell died

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This staircase belongs to the Washington home at 1331 Connecticut Avenue, where Alexander Graham Bell and his wife, Mabel, lived for many years. Bell, the inventor of the telephone, died in August 1922 at his summer home in Nova Scotia, and Mabel Bell died in Washington early in 1923, so this January 1923 view shows the house in the months after the couple's deaths. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Bell's son-in-law and a longtime leader of the National Geographic Society, later gathered family photographs like this one, and the collection is now held by the Library of Congress.

Created / published1923 Jan.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesGilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBell, Alexander Graham,--1847-1922--Homes & haunts. Stairways--Washington (D.C)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,124 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163657

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