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United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. – Vintage Print

United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., [between 1872 and 1874] — antique lithograph
United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., [between 1872 and 1874]. Antique lithograph from the Washington DC 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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This rare antique lithograph captures United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

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The United States Capitol, shown here in a hand-colored lithograph, is a view of the building as it looked in the early 1870s, when its great cast-iron dome was nearing completion. Currier & Ives, the New York firm at 125 Nassau Street, produced large numbers of inexpensive city and landmark views like this one for a broad middle-class market, often coloring them by hand to give the scene a lively finish. Work on the Capitol's dome had continued through the Civil War and was finished in the early 1860s, so by the 1870s the building stood as a finished symbol of the national government, and prints such as this helped spread its image across the country.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., [between 1872 and 1874]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880.
NotesTitle from item. Conningham no. 5227a. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6783
SubjectsUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,082 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109717

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