Washington, D.C., scenes, primarily taken with early Kodak cameras

100 photographic prints : albumen ; 20 x 25 cm. or smaller, most 8 cm. or 12 cm. circular images on 11 x 13 cm. mounts, taken with early models of Kodak cameras. | Photographs show informal snapshot views, primarily in the area of Washington, D.C., where the photographer lived and worked--an area bo...

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Main Authors: Painter, Uriah Hunt, 1837-1900, C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.)
Format: Image
Language:English
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City & town life > Washington (D.C.) > 1880-1890
Disasters > Washington (D.C.) > 1880-1890
Parks > Washington (D.C.) > 1880-1890
Washington (D.C.) > 1880-1890
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Summary:100 photographic prints : albumen ; 20 x 25 cm. or smaller, most 8 cm. or 12 cm. circular images on 11 x 13 cm. mounts, taken with early models of Kodak cameras. | Photographs show informal snapshot views, primarily in the area of Washington, D.C., where the photographer lived and worked--an area bounded by his home at 900 14th Street, his Franklin Square neighborhood, and his office at 501 14th St., near old "Newspaper Row" (essentially the ten-block area between I and E streets to the north and south, and 11th and 14th streets on the east and west). Specific subjects include a bearded young man in a top hat carrying an early Kodak camera, Pennsylvania Avenue flooded, and a horse car in the snow-covered streets;. Also includes pictures of disasters (a boiler factory explosion and the Evening Star Building fire); street vendors (hot waffles and ice cream); various modes of transportation (bicycles, sleighs, goat-drawn carts, trolleys, fancy carriages, men on horses); and Easter Monday on the White House Grounds on Apirl 22, 1889.