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Washington from the Monument – Historic Print

Washington from the Monument — historic photograph
Washington from the Monument. Historic photograph from the Washington Monument 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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This historic photograph of Washington from the Monument brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Washington from the Monument

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The view looks out over the city from the top of the Washington Monument, the obelisk that rose on the National Mall in the nineteenth century. Around 1900 the monument was still a relatively new sight, finished in 1884 after decades of delays caused by funding disputes and the Civil War. From that height a visitor could look across the Mall toward the Capitol and the surrounding streets, and photographs like this one let viewers see how sparse the capital still was compared with today. The print is valuable as a record of Washington's early skyline at the turn of the century.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128961

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