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Building the first White House, Washington, D.C., 1798. Modern Washington is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad – Historic Photo Reproduction

Building the first White House, Washington, D.C., 1798. Modern Washington is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad, c1931 Sept. 28. — vintage poster
Building the first White House, Washington, D.C., 1798. Modern Washington is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad, c1931 Sept. 28.. Vintage poster from the White House 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Building the first White House, Washington, D.C., 1798. Modern Washington is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Building the first White House, Washington, D.C., 1798. Modern Washington is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad

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Rather than showing the finished mansion, this Pennsylvania Railroad poster pictures the White House going up in 1798, with a modern Washington reached by train set beside it. The building was still under construction then. Its cornerstone had been laid in 1792, and John Adams became its first resident in 1800. Newell Convers Wyeth, best known for his illustrations of adventure stories, created the color design, and the contrast between the young republic and a 1931 city is the point of the advertisement.

Created / publishedc1931 Sept. 28.
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
NotesK14526 U.S. Copyright Office Color offset by Newell Convers Wyeth. Copyright not renewed 1959. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,741 × 3,900 px · prints to 9 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173025

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