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White House ... North Portico – Antique Wall Art

White House ... North Portico — historic photograph
White House ... North Portico. Historic photograph from the White House 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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White House ... North Portico comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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White House ... North Portico

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Unlike the many views of the White House's south face, this photograph shows the North Portico, the entrance on the side facing Lafayette Square. It was probably taken between 1859 and 1861, just before the Civil War, and it belongs to a album of public buildings assembled by Montgomery C. Meigs, the Army engineer who oversaw federal construction projects in Washington at the time. The record is based on an old caption card and has not been fully verified, but the image still shows the executive mansion as it looked in the years before the war changed the city.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[between 1859 and 1861]
SubjectsPhoto in M.C. Meigs Coll., Box U, Public Bldgs., Album, #15. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.-- WH ext.--Views--North; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,517 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137175

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