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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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A window into the past: [The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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

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Shortly after the Library of Congress's main building opened to readers in 1897, a photographer recorded it in the late 1890s, when it was still new. Its Beaux-Arts facade and domed reading room were designed to showcase the nation's growing collections, and the library was already counted among the largest in the world. The title appears in brackets, which signals that the cataloguers supplied it rather than taking it from the print itself, so the c1898 date is the best guide to when the view was made.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan6,383 × 5,134 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124200

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