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Roof over Representatives Chamber [in House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

Roof over Representatives Chamber [in House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.] — historic photograph
Roof over Representatives Chamber [in House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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 Roof over Representatives Chamber [in House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Roof over Representatives Chamber [in House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.]

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The roof over the House of Representatives chamber in the U.S. Capitol is the subject here, a part of the building most visitors never see up close. The print comes from an album assembled by Montgomery C. Meigs, the Army engineer who supervised the Capitol's extension and related federal construction in the late 1850s. Those years saw the Capitol's new wings and expanded legislative spaces rising in the midst of the sectional tensions that would soon erupt into the Civil War. The record's dating is an estimate between 1859 and 1861, so the image captures a building still under construction, with its ironwork and framing exposed.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[between 1859 and 1861]
SubjectsPhoto from original in M.C. Meigs Coll., Box U, Public Bldgs. Album #5. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.--Bldgs., US Govt.--House office buildings; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,528 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137173

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