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. Washington DC as seen from the top of the Washington Monument.
label: Description
content: A view from the observation deck at the top of the Washington Monument looking east down the north side of the future National Mall. The enormous Central Market on B Street, NW (renamed Constitution Avenue in 1931) covering two blocks between 7th and 9th Streets, NW and the large Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station17 at 6th and B Streets, NW are visible in this image, as is the large white Patent Building (now the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture) and the Pension Building (now the National Building Museum). 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: 2010.0080.16
label: accession number
content: 2010.0080
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0080.16
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