Glass plate negative made by Walter J. Hussey, 1885-1910. Patent Office Building.
South Front of Patent Office Building at the intersection of 8th and F Streets, NW (completed 1862); Taken in December 1889. The building is now the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture which houses the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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.
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