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[Bronze doors for the east portico of the Senate wing, U.S. Capitol] – Historic Reproduction

[Bronze doors for the east portico of the Senate wing, U.S. Capitol], [between 1855 and 1865] — historic photograph
[Bronze doors for the east portico of the Senate wing, U.S. Capitol], [between 1855 and 1865]. Historic photograph from the U.S. Capitol 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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Rather than a finished building detail, this salted paper print records a set of bronze doors meant for the east portico of the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol, a project from the years just before the Civil War. The album it belongs to was assembled by Benjamin Brown French, who served as Commissioner of Public Buildings and oversaw much of the Capitol's expansion at the time. The record also lists maquettes and Revolutionary War battles among its subjects, suggesting the doors were meant to honor George Washington and the nation's founding, and that the photograph may show a preliminary model. Salted paper prints like this one were an early and fairly fragile process, which makes the surviving image valuable to historians of the building.

Created / published[between 1855 and 1865]
Medium1 photographic print : salted paper ; 21 x 11 cm.
NotesIn album: Benjamin Brown French Photographs
SubjectsWashington, George,--1732-1799--Monuments--Washington (D.C.) United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1850-1880. Doors & doorways--Washington (D.C.)--1850-1880. Maquettes--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns & battles.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan824 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158117

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