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[Library of Congress: detail of capital of column in the Rotunda on the first floor of the Library of Congress, 13 Nov. 1895] – Antique Print

[Library of Congress: detail of capital of column in the Rotunda on the first floor of the Library of Congress, 13 Nov. 1895] — historic photograph
[Library of Congress: detail of capital of column in the Rotunda on the first floor of the Library of Congress, 13 Nov. 1895]. 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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The capital shown here sits on one of the columns of the Rotunda on the first floor of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and this 1895 photograph was taken on November 13, the year the building opened to the public. The Rotunda is the hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building, completed in 1897 after years of construction, and its ornament was meant to present learning and the arts as a national achievement. Close views like this one record the carved foliage and figures that decorate the building's interior, details that photographers often documented as the new architecture was being finished.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1895
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sculpture; DC, Wash.--LC--Int.; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,242 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135967

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