Panoramic View from top of Washington Monument
date: label: date made
content: 1885-1910
name: label: maker
content: Hussey, Walter J.
notes: label: Description
content: Glass plate negative made by Walter J. Hussey, 1885-1910. White House as seen from the top of the Washington Monument.
label: Description
content: A view of the White House flanked by the imposing State, War, and Navy and Treasury Buildings from the observation deck at the top of the Washington Monument. Note the White House Conservatory on the west side of the White House and the U-shaped building surrounded by trees with the entrance gate facing 17th Street, NW just south of the State, War, and Navy Building (now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building). This is the last White House stable built in 1871 for President Ulysses Grant. Taken in December 1889.
label: Description
content: The collection in the Photographic History Collection consists of over two hundred glass plate negatives made by Walter J. Hussey (1865-1959). These glass plate negatives consist of daily life in and around Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Mr. Hussey's friends and family, studio portraits, his trips to the Washington, D.C. area, and Florida.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Walter J. Hussey Collection
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Richard S. Hussey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0080.13
label: accession number
content: 2010.0080
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0080.13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: glass negative
label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Name
content: glass plate negative
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 8 in; 12.7 cm x 20.32 cm