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Old Supreme Court Room, 1900 A. D.--Supreme Court Law Library – Vintage Wall Art

Old Supreme Court Room, 1900 A. D.--Supreme Court Law Library, 1900 — historic print
Old Supreme Court Room, 1900 A. D.--Supreme Court Law Library, 1900. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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 photogravure shows the old Supreme Court room in the north wing of the United States Capitol, a space the justices used for their sessions before the Court moved out of the building's north wing in 1860. By 1900, when this plate appeared, the room held the Supreme Court Law Library. It is plate 94 in Glenn Brown's *History of the United States Capitol*, published the same year, and it documents how the Capitol's interiors had changed as the government and its archives grew. Photogravure was a costly reproduction method, so the plate shows the room's shelving and furnishings in fine detail.

Created / published1900
Medium1 photomechanical print : photogravure.
GenreBook illustrations 1900.Photogravures 1900.
NotesIllus. in: History of the United States Capitol / Glenn Brown. 1900, plate 94, opposite p. 68.
SubjectsUnited States.--Supreme Court--Buildings--1900. United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1900. Libraries--Washington (D.C.)--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,144 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163455

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