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Image Title: Waffle Vendor Near U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C., 1889

Creator: Painter, Uriah Hunt, 1837-1900, photographer

Date: 1889 Apr. 22.

Summary: Photo shows a wagon offering "Hot Waffles 6 for 5c" attracting a small crowd of men and boys at the south front of the Treasury building. Painter captured the hubbub of the Easter Egg Roll at the White House next door with his original or Number One Kodak. Vendors catering to tourists were a regular part of the downtown landscape. (Source: Ison article on Painter, 1990)

Notes: 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. 36.

Subjects: Food vendors--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1890

Places: Washington D.C.

Original Media: Photograph

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