United States Post Office, Court House and Custom House, Memphis, Tenn. – Antique 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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United States Post Office, Court House and Custom House, Memphis, Tenn. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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United States Post Office, Court House and Custom House, Memphis, Tenn.
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The subject is the United States Post Office, Court House and Custom House in Memphis, Tennessee, a single federal building that housed postal services, federal courts and customs offices under one roof. This halftone was reproduced in *The Federal Architect*, a Treasury Department publication, in its July 1932 issue, so it shows the building as federal architects wanted it presented to the profession. Combined federal buildings like this were a common feature of the 1930s, when the Treasury's Supervising Architect's Office designed many such structures across the country. The print's photomechanical process, which turned photographs into dot patterns for magazine printing, is itself a useful reminder of how architecture was documented and circulated before the widespread use of offset photography.
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1932 |
| Subjects | Halftone repro. of photos in The Federal Architect, 1932 July, p. 2. Reference copy may be available in 4388L. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Architectural Colls.; Arch.--Drawings...; Tenn.; Customs houses; Post offices--Tennessee; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,051 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133702 |
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