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East pediment of the north wing, U.S. Capitol – Antique Wall Art

East pediment of the north wing, U.S. Capitol, [between 1853 and 1878] — historic photograph
East pediment of the north wing, U.S. Capitol, [between 1853 and 1878]. Historic photograph from the U.S. Capitol 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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Step back in time with East pediment of the north wing, U.S. Capitol, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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East pediment of the north wing, U.S. Capitol

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The photograph shows the east pediment of the Capitol's north wing, the section that housed the Senate, at a time when Washington was still finishing and expanding the building. Benjamin Brown French, who served as commissioner of public buildings in the 1850s and 1860s, oversaw much of that work and kept an album of photographs documenting it. The print is a salted paper process, an early method that produced soft, warm-brown images and that was widely used in the years before the Civil War. Its survival in French's album makes it a useful record of the Capitol's architecture during one of its most active building periods.

Created / published[between 1853 and 1878]
Medium1 photographic print : salted paper ; 20 x 42 cm.
NotesIn album: Benjamin Brown French Photographs
SubjectsUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1850-1880. Pediments--1850-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 748 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158068

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