Large crowd before the Capitol east front, dome under construction – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Large crowd before the Capitol east front, dome under construction in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Large crowd before the Capitol east front, dome under construction
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What sets this scene apart is the dome, still under construction and rising above a large crowd gathered before the Capitol's east front. Work on the cast-iron dome ran from 1856 to 1866, so the building was a working site for most of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Lincoln took his second oath of office on the East Portico in March 1865, while the dome was still unfinished, and gatherings in that area drew crowds much like this one. Worth noticing are the many figures packed onto the grounds and the bulk of scaffolding and partial structure above them.
| Original scan | 4,027 × 3,711 px · prints to 13 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-E-6 |
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