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U.S. Capitol: Entrance from Maryland Avenue, showing dome – Antique Wall Art

U.S. Capitol: Entrance from Maryland Avenue, showing dome, [between 1880 and 1940] — historic photograph
U.S. Capitol: Entrance from Maryland Avenue, showing dome, [between 1880 and 1940]. Historic photograph from the U.S. Capitol 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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U.S. Capitol: Entrance from Maryland Avenue, showing dome comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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U.S. Capitol: Entrance from Maryland Avenue, showing dome

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Taken from a Maryland Avenue entrance, this view follows a walkway across the Capitol grounds toward the building and its dome. The dome, a cast-iron structure finished in 1866 and crowned by Thomas Crawford's statue of Freedom, was the feature visitors saw first on the approach. Frederick Law Olmsted's landscape work on the grounds during the 1870s and 1880s gave these paths their planned, landscaped character. Views like this one show how the Capitol looked to people on foot before the mid-twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1940.
SubjectsUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1880-1940. Walkways--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,165 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161558

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