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Library of Congress: View looking north through Grand Stair Hall, from south corridor – Antique Print

Library of Congress: View looking north through Grand Stair Hall, from south corridor — historic photograph
Library of Congress: View looking north through Grand Stair Hall, from south corridor. 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 historic photograph of Library of Congress: View looking north through Grand Stair Hall, from south corridor brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Library of Congress: View looking north through Grand Stair Hall, from south corridor

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Looking north from the south corridor, this view takes in the Grand Stair Hall of the Library of Congress, the marble-lined heart of the Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington. The building was constructed in the 1890s and opened to the public in 1897, and its stairways and richly decorated halls were meant to impress visitors as much as to hold books. The L.C. Handy Studio of Washington made the print. The record dates it only tentatively, between 1895 and 1897, so it likely shows the interior as the building neared completion.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[between 1895 and 1897?]
SubjectsPhoto by L.C. Handy Studio, Wash., D.C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Washington--LC--Interior; Interiors; Libraries; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,223 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134760

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