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The Library of Congress – Historic Print

The Library of Congress, c1900. — historic photograph
The Library of Congress, c1900.. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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The west facade of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., is the subject here, a view of the building that opened in 1897 as the Jefferson Building. Its architects, John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz, drew on Italian Renaissance design, and the monumental stonework was meant to show the young nation's ambitions for learning. This print comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large-format views of American landmarks for travelers around 1900. Its cyanotype process gives the print a distinctive blue-toned surface, and the company listed it in its 1901 catalog.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype ; image 41 x 52 cm.
GenreMammoth plates.Cyanotypes.
NotesWest facade. Listed in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Photographic Co." Copyright deposit no. D1259[-]. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015061 Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 758 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-79077

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