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Jefferson Building, Library of Congress – Historic Photograph Print

Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 rare historic photograph captures Jefferson Building, Library of Congress in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Jefferson Building, Library of Congress

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This is an exterior general view of the Jefferson Building, the main structure of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., which was named for Thomas Jefferson. Completed in 1897, it was built to relieve crowding in the Capitol, where the library had been housed, and its Beaux-Arts design, with ornate carved stonework, statuary, and a prominent dome, was meant to show the nation's commitment to learning. The record does not give a date for this print, so the view is best read as a general record of how the building presented itself from the street.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsAnother copy is located in U.S. GEOG FILE - WASHINGTON, D.C.--LIBRARY OF CONGRESS--JEFFERSON BUILDING--EXTERIOR--GENERAL VIEWS. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 830 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159665

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