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City of Washington, D.C. from the National Observatory, 1876 – Historic Reproduction

City of Washington, D.C. from the National Observatory, 1876, c1877. — historic image
City of Washington, D.C. from the National Observatory, 1876, c1877.. Historic image 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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A window into the past: City of Washington, D.C. from the National Observatory, 1876, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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City of Washington, D.C. from the National Observatory, 1876

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Seen from the National Observatory, this view looks out over a capital that was still a city of open land and scattered buildings in the mid-1870s. The unfinished Washington Monument, which had stood partly built for more than two decades before work resumed in 1876, is one of the landmarks a viewer would look for. The print reproduces a lithograph by H.S. Packard, issued under a copyright held by Burgett, and it belongs to the popular genre of city panoramas that let residents and visitors take in a fast-changing capital at a glance.

Created / publishedc1877.
Medium1 item.
NotesRepro. of lithograph by H.S. Packard, copyrighted by Burgett. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,012 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119641

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