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[White House from State, War & Navy bldg., showing West wing, gardens, and fountain] – Historic Print

[White House from State, War & Navy bldg., showing West wing, gardens, and fountain] — historic photograph
[White House from State, War & Navy bldg., showing West wing, gardens, and fountain]. Historic photograph from the White House 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: [White House from State, War & Navy bldg., showing West wing, gardens, and fountain], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Made from the State, War and Navy Building, this view looks across to the western side of the White House, where the mansion's gardens and fountain sit close to the executive offices. That neighboring building, finished in the 1880s in a French Second Empire style, housed the departments that handled the nation's diplomacy and military affairs, so the photographer's position places the viewer at the center of federal work. The picture is part of the Brady-Handy Collection, a body of 19th-century photographs of Washington and its public figures, and it shows the grounds as a working complex rather than only a ceremonial façade.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[pre-1900]
SubjectsBrady-Handy Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; DC, Wash.--WH ext--Views; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,197 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135591

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