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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Wall Art

[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] — historic photograph
[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]. Historic photograph from the Library of Congress 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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A window into the past: [The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

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Few buildings in Washington from this period were as new as the one shown here. The Library of Congress had outgrown its quarters in the U.S. Capitol, and this building, now known as the Thomas Jefferson Building, opened to the public in 1897, about a year before this print was made. Its ornate exterior and the great reading room under its dome were meant to show the young nation's ambitions for learning. The record gives no photographer, and the bracketed title shows that cataloguers supplied the name, so the picture is best read as a record of the building in its first years.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan6,286 × 5,074 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124198

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