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[Library of Congress - Southwest courtyard looking south] – Antique Print

[Library of Congress - Southwest courtyard looking south] — historic photograph
[Library of Congress - Southwest courtyard looking south]. 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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This view looks south across an interior courtyard of the Library of Congress in Washington, a space that brought daylight and air into the heavy masonry of the Jefferson Building on Capitol Hill. The print was made by Harris & Ewing, a Washington studio that photographed government offices, officials and city scenes for decades. The record's date of roughly 1930 to 1940 is an estimate from an old caption card and has not been verified. Views like this one help show how the Beaux-Arts building was planned around courtyards and light.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[between 1930 and 1940?]
SubjectsPhoto by Harris & Ewing. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Washington--LC--Views; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,242 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136073

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