taken with early Kodak cameras Hot Waffles

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

Title: Washington, D.C., scenes, primarily taken with early Kodak cameras
Creator(s): Painter, Uriah Hunt, 1837-1900, photographer
Related Names:
C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.) , photographer
Date Created/Published: 1887,1888-1889.
Summary: 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.
Notes: Arrangement: Organized in 4 parts: LOT 3860-1 has fifty-four photos taken with an original or #1 Kodak camera; LOT 3860-2 has thirty-six photos taken with a Kodak #2 camera; LOT 3860-3 has one photo of Pennsylvania Ave. flood by C.M. Bell, 1887; LOT 3860-4 has nine photos, enlarged prints, 8 x 10 inches.
LOT title devised by Library staff. Other information from article by Mary Ison, which attributed the photographs to Uriah Hunt Painter and established the date spans; also, catalog card and published guide: Washingtoniana Photographs ... Library of Congress, 1989.
Gift; Chester County Historical Society of Westchester, Pa.; 1949.
Painter's papers are at the Chester County (Penn.) Historical Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Uriah Hunt Painter, a retired newspaper reporter and well-to-do businessman, took these snapshot photographs using the first Kodak cameras. The earliest dated image is 12/23/88. The prints have a distinctive circular shape.
Published in: 'Uriah Hunt Painter and the 'Marvelous Kodak Camera,' by Mary Ison (Library staff). Washington History, vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall/Winter, 1990/1991), p. 30-47.

Subjects: 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.

Kodak card photographs--1880-1890.

Bookmark /2004668830/
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