Monticello Cirkut – Antique Wall Art
(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 Monticello Cirkut in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Monticello Cirkut
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Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's hilltop house near Charlottesville, Virginia, appears here as a long, narrow panorama that takes in the whole view at once. The image was made with a Cirkut camera, a rotating panoramic camera that swept its lens across a wide arc and produced unusually elongated prints like this one. In 1912 the house was still privately owned, decades before its restoration as a museum, so the picture captures the estate as it looked to visitors in the early twentieth century, when Jefferson's architectural design was already drawing attention as a national landmark.
| Created / published | c. 1912 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photographic print, gelatin silver, 6.5 x 36 in. |
| Notes | Holsinger, Rufus W |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 816 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | VA Monticello Cirkut 1912 |
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