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U.S. Green House, Washington, D.C. – Antique Print

U.S. Green House, Washington, D.C. — historic photograph
U.S. Green House, Washington, D.C.. Historic photograph 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: U.S. Green House, Washington, D.C., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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U.S. Green House, Washington, D.C.

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Taken in 1859, this view shows one of the greenhouses on the federal grounds in Washington, the glasshouses that supported the government's botanical garden near the Capitol. The print belongs to the Meigs collection, assembled by Montgomery C. Meigs, the Army engineer who oversaw much of the city's federal building work in the 1850s. Glass-and-iron structures like this one were then a new and prized type of public building, used to grow plants for study, display and distribution. The record's data comes from an old caption card and has not been fully verified, so details of the building's construction are best checked against other sources.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1859
SubjectsPhoto in M.C. Meigs Coll., Box U, Misc. Album, #43. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Greenhouses; DC, Wash.--Bldgs., US Govt.--Botanical Garden Conservatory; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,486 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137177

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