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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] – Historic 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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Lead with the building itself: this view shows the Library of Congress just after its main structure, the Thomas Jefferson Building, opened to readers in 1897. The library had long shared space in the U.S. Capitol, and Congress built this separate Beaux-Arts palace on Capitol Hill to hold a growing collection. The record gives only the title and an approximate date of about 1898, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of the building in its earliest years, when its ornate facade and dome were new.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan6,279 × 5,055 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124214

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