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State Department – Historic Print

State Department — antique engraving
State Department. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of State Department. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The engraving shows a Washington government building rather than a person: the granite State, War, and Navy Building just west of the White House, which housed the State Department along with the War and Navy offices. Architect Alfred B. Mullett designed it in the French Second Empire style, with mansard roofs and elaborate pavilions, and it was built in stages from the early 1870s into the following decade. *Harper's New Monthly Magazine* ran the engraving in its March 1878 issue, when the building was a prominent part of the capital's growing federal core.

Medium1 print : line engraving.
Notes1878
SubjectsIllus. in: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LVI, March 1878, p. 485. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.--Govt. Bldgs.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129820

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