Library of Congress. Main Reading Room. Gallery with statue of Christopher Columbus – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Library of Congress. Main Reading Room. Gallery with statue of Christopher Columbus, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Library of Congress. Main Reading Room. Gallery with statue of Christopher Columbus
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This photograph shows a gallery in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, where a statue of Christopher Columbus stands among the building's ornate interior. The Thomas Jefferson Building opened in 1897, and its decoration draws heavily on the theme of Columbus and the European discovery of the Americas. The caption card credits L.C. Handy but gives no date, so the exact year the picture was taken is unconfirmed. It still offers a useful look at how the library's public spaces were arranged and decorated in its early decades.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | Photo by L.C. Handy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Sculpture; BI; DC, Wash.--LC--Int.--Main RR; Libraries; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,203 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135969 |
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