The New Capitol Building, Sacramento City – Antique Photo Print
![The New Capitol Building, Sacramento City, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/85/85bf10d669be-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: The New Capitol Building, Sacramento City, 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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The New Capitol Building, Sacramento City
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This stereograph shows the New Capitol Building in Sacramento and is number 1208 in the *Gems of California Scenery* series. California's government settled in Sacramento in 1854 after years of moving its seat, and the new building was meant to give the young state a lasting home for its legislature. Stereographs like this were sold as pairs and viewed through a stereoscope, which gave architecture a sense of depth a flat print could not. The Library holds only one half of the original pair, so this image shows just one of the two viewpoints.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1208. LOT subdivision subject: Sacramento. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,459 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115948 |
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