Interior of United States Patent Office, Washington, D.C.
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Date1892
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 8 1/4 x 10 1/4in. (21 x 26cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionMen, all wearing suits, sit at desks piled with papers. Most men have beards or mustaches and are reading or writing. Bookcases, some with glass doors line the walls. A clock is on the wall at the left. A mirror is above a shelf at the right. A light fixture, evidently a gaslight fixture converted for electricity with electric light bulbs and shades hangs from the ceiling. Another electric light hangs from a wire.
Object number2000.206.32
InscribedOn recto, inscribed on mount: "United States Patent Office. April 1892. / Examiner of Surgery, Sacks and his Assistants. Room 153 / 1. See back side. 2. Wyrengarth [?] of Chicago (Atty. Bro. Of [illegible] submitting an amendment / 3. Atty. Bond of Ohio arguing case with Asst. [?] / Lightfoot (no. 4) of Virginia / 5. Dr. J.J. Darby of Connecticut, ranking Asst. - / 6. Asst. R.M. McKee of New York / 7. Asst. W. T. Hutchinson of D.C. / 8. Asst. Norwood of North Carolina / 9. Docket Clerk Johnson of D.C. / Type Writer Burch of D.C."On verso: "This was intended for Examiner Wilkinson, / an aged paralytic of about 80. / The stretcher on which he was brought to the office and his crutches are out in the hall."
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John C. Nyser
1910-1911