[Administration building (modelled after Monticello) Jamestown Exposition, Virginia] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Administration building (modelled after Monticello) Jamestown Exposition, Virginia], c1906. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/38/38c02bbad810-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures [Administration building (modelled after Monticello) Jamestown Exposition, Virginia] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Administration building (modelled after Monticello) Jamestown Exposition, Virginia]
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Thomas Jefferson's home at Monticello supplied the model for this administration building, which was designed for the Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition, held in 1907 near Norfolk, Virginia. The fair marked 300 years since English colonists founded Jamestown in 1607, and its planners leaned on Virginia's colonial and early republican past, so a building echoing Jefferson's domed, columned villa suited the theme. This photograph reproduces an architectural drawing rather than the finished building, and it was issued around 1906 by the Jamestown Official Photo Co., as the fair was being prepared. Such drawings show how exposition architects blended Virginia heritage with the classical styling that was popular at American world's fairs of the period.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Architectural drawings 1900-1910 Reproductions.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Reproduction of a drawing. No. 556. Copyright by Jamestown Official Photo Co. |
| Subjects | Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition--(1907)--Buildings. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,253 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179927 |
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