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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]. 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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This view shows the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., a institution that by the late 1890s had outgrown its quarters in the U.S. Capitol. Its move into the newly completed Thomas Jefferson Building, which opened in 1897, marked a major change for the nation's library. The building's ornate Beaux-Arts design, with its domes, sculpture, and decorative detail, was meant to show the country's ambitions for learning and public culture. A photograph from around 1898 captures the building soon after it opened, when it was still new to the city's skyline.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,166 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124211

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