Library of Congress. Interior. Great Hall (detail) – Vintage Print
(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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Library of Congress. Interior. Great Hall (detail)
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Set beneath the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, this view zooms in on a section of the Great Hall, the building's central space, where marble, decorative mosaic work and sculpture were meant to express the ambitions of a young national library. The building opened to the public in 1897, and its interiors were a deliberate display of American craft and learning. The photograph is credited to L.C. Handy, a photographer associated with the Library's early image collections. The caption card does not record a date, so the exact year of the exposure is unknown, though the detail of the architectural surfaces is worth studying closely.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | Photo by L.C. Handy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; DC, Wash.--Lib. of C.--Interior; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,214 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-134563 |
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