Washington from the Monument – Historic Print
(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: Washington from the Monument, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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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, a vantage that was only open to visitors for a relatively short window in the early twentieth century. The monument was finished in 1884 and opened to the public soon after, with visitors reaching the observation room by a steam-powered elevator and, earlier, by climbing the stairs. Photographs taken from its height, such as this one from around 1900, record a Washington still laid out on a grid of broad avenues with the Mall stretching toward the Capitol, before the taller buildings of later decades changed the skyline.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | ca. 1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,113 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128964 |
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