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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Print

[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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This rare historic photograph captures [The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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

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Shown here is the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill, photographed around 1898, a year after the institution moved into its new home. The Thomas Jefferson Building, designed in the Beaux-Arts style by architects John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz, opened in 1897 to house a collection that had outgrown its quarters in the U.S. Capitol. The brackets around the title mean the cataloger supplied the name rather than taking it from a caption. Its ornate stone façade and dome were meant to express the young nation's ambitions for learning.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,364 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124195

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