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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.]

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Few buildings in the capital were newer in 1898 than this one, the Library of Congress in its Jefferson Building, which had opened only the year before. For nearly a century the national library had been crowded into rooms inside the Capitol, and the move to a dedicated Beaux-Arts palace just east of the Capitol marked a major change. The collection traces back to Thomas Jefferson's personal library, which Congress bought in 1815 after British troops burned the Capitol and its earlier books in 1814. Worth noticing in the photograph is the building's ornate stonework and the broad dome that rose above Capitol Hill.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,347 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124199

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