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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

[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. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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

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Dating to about 1898, this view most likely shows the Thomas Jefferson Building on Capitol Hill, which opened to readers in 1897 as the library outgrew its rooms in the Capitol. The library was founded in 1800, and after British troops burned the Capitol in 1814, Thomas Jefferson sold his own collection to Congress to restart it. The Beaux-Arts building, with its marble stairways and decorated halls, was meant to express the young republic's ambitions in stone.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,124 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124207

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