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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] — historic photograph
[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]. Historic photograph from the Library of Congress 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 [The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

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The building shown here is the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building on Capitol Hill, which opened in late 1897 and took over the collections that had been kept in the Capitol since 1800. A photograph from about 1898 captures it only months into its new role, when its ornate Beaux-Arts facade and interiors were still drawing crowds of visitors. Worth noticing is how the building was designed to display the nation's growing book collection, a sign of Washington's rising stature as a center of federal learning.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,074 × 6,383 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124205

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