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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. View from Senate wing of Capitol] – Historic Print

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. View from Senate wing of Capitol], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic photograph
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. View from Senate wing of Capitol], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic photograph from the Library of Congress 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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A window into the past: [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. View from Senate wing of Capitol], 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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Rather than the familiar west front or dome, this print looks outward from the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol, a vantage few photographers chose. The record's reference to the library's architectural and engineering drawing holdings suggests the image was kept as a documentary record of the building's structure and surroundings. The Senate wing was finished in the late 1850s, when the Capitol was being expanded to hold a growing Congress, and views like this one show how the building's bulk and its setting in the young capital fit together. The record does not give a date, so the exact year of the print is uncertain.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : photographic print on emulsion paper mounted on board.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 890 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134765

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