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

[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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Step back in time with [The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. 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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Built on Capitol Hill, the Library of Congress's main building was still new when this print was made around 1898, having opened to readers in 1897. Its Beaux-Arts design, by architects John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz, was meant to express the young nation's ambitions for learning, and it replaced a small collection that had been housed in the Capitol and largely destroyed when British troops burned Washington in 1814. Notice the scale of the stone facade and the ornamented domes, which were a deliberate statement of civic pride. The record gives no photographer's name, so the print is best read as a document of a building in its early years.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,137 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124197

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