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[Senate Wing of United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

[Senate Wing of United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Senate Wing of United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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The Senate wing, the north half of the United States Capitol that houses the upper chamber, took its enlarged form in 1859 under architect Thomas U. Walter, who extended the original building. This view, made on an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate sometime between 1900 and 1910, shows the stone facade during the decades when Washington was growing into a modern capital. The Detroit Publishing Company produced the negative and sold views like this to travelers and publishers across the country, so the plate shows how the Capitol appeared to ordinary visitors in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 1704" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033782. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCapitols.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66950

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