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[Aerial view of Library of Congress, 1933, showing construction of west wing for Rare Book Coll.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Aerial view of Library of Congress, 1933, showing construction of west wing for Rare Book Coll.] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Library of Congress, 1933, showing construction of west wing for Rare Book Coll.]. 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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A window into the past: [Aerial view of Library of Congress, 1933, showing construction of west wing for Rare Book Coll.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Aerial view of Library of Congress, 1933, showing construction of west wing for Rare Book Coll.]

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Taken from above, this 1933 print shows the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., while a new west wing was going up to house its Rare Book Collection. The bird's-eye angle lets you see the building's footprint and the work site around it in one view, something ground-level photographs of the period rarely captured. Construction photographs like this one were often made to document progress on federal buildings, so the print also serves as a record of how the library's campus was being expanded in the early 1930s.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1933]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,195 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136828

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