Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Va. April Collier, John – Historic Reproduction
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This rare historic image captures Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Va. April Collier, John in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Va. April Collier, John
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Monticello, the hilltop house Thomas Jefferson designed and spent much of his life rebuilding near Charlottesville, Virginia, is the subject here, shown in a color transparency made around 1943. Jefferson began the house in the 1770s and kept revising its design for decades, so its mix of Palladian symmetry and personal inventions reflects a long working life rather than a single moment. The picture reached the collection through the U.S. Office of War Information, which transferred it in 1944, a reminder that wartime agencies recorded American landmarks and everyday scenes during these years. Its color format is worth noticing, since color film was still less common than black and white in that period.
| Created / published | c. 1943 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. (transparency, color) |
| Original scan | 2,675 × 2,176 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1a34516u |
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