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[Washington, DC - Treasury Building] – Antique Photo Print

[Washington, DC - Treasury Building], [Between 1885 and 1895] — historic photograph
[Washington, DC - Treasury Building], [Between 1885 and 1895]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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[Washington, DC - Treasury Building] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The view shows the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., the granite government office block that fills the block at 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, a short walk from the White House. The catalog dates the print to between 1885 and 1895, a period when the building had long been the federal government's main financial office and the surrounding avenues were busy with carriages and streetcars. Its heavy classical facade, built over several decades of construction, was a deliberate statement of national permanence. The print is useful for seeing how the building anchored this stretch of the capital before the later expansion of federal offices nearby.

Created / published[Between 1885 and 1895]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: D.C., Washington--Streets--15th; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,489 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135080

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