D.C. Washington. Botanical Gardens. View with Bartholdi Fountain in distance – Antique Print
![D.C. Washington. Botanical Gardens. View with Bartholdi Fountain in distance, [ca. 1930] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/aa/aa439131401c-L.webp)
(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 D.C. Washington. Botanical Gardens. View with Bartholdi Fountain in distance. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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D.C. Washington. Botanical Gardens. View with Bartholdi Fountain in distance
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Looking across the grounds of the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, this photograph places the Bartholdi Fountain in the distance, its cast-iron figures rising above the plantings. The fountain was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the French sculptor later known for the Statue of Liberty, and it was shown at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia before being installed near the Capitol. The print was made by Underwood & Underwood, a firm known for stereographs and mass-produced views of American sites. The record dates it to about 1930, but that date is unverified.
| Created / published | [ca. 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Gardens; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,229 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142009 |
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