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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] – Antique 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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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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

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This photograph shows the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., around 1898, just after its main building opened to the public in late 1897. Known today as the Thomas Jefferson Building, it was the library's first home separate from the U.S. Capitol, where its collection had been kept since 1800 and where most of the holdings were lost in the British burning of 1814. The bracketed title indicates that the catalogers supplied the name, since the print carries no caption of its own. The building's ornate Italian Renaissance style, with its marble and decorative detail, was meant to show the young nation's commitment to learning, and the picture captures it at the moment it was new.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,349 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124201

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