D.C. Washington. Lincoln Memorial. 1912. Plans. Two Views, showing model and proposed location – Antique Print
(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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D.C. Washington. Lincoln Memorial. 1912. Plans. Two Views, showing model and proposed location comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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D.C. Washington. Lincoln Memorial. 1912. Plans. Two Views, showing model and proposed location
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Two views of a scale model, photographed with its proposed location, show the Lincoln Memorial before anything was built on the Potomac flats west of the Mall. Congress authorized the memorial in 1911, and the choice of site fit the wider effort to shape the capital's open spaces that followed the 1901 McMillan Plan. Henry Bacon's Doric-columned design, with Daniel Chester French's seated figure of Lincoln, was dedicated in 1922. The photograph was made by the Washington firm Leet, and it captures a plan that was still taking shape.
| Created / published | c1912. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo copyrighted by Leet, Washington, D.C. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Architecture--Models; DC, Wash.--Monuments...; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,113 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136037 |
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