[U.S. Patent Office letterhead, with illus. of Patent Office building] – Antique Photo Print
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(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.)
Description
A window into the past: [U.S. Patent Office letterhead, with illus. of Patent Office building], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[U.S. Patent Office letterhead, with illus. of Patent Office building]
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A printed letterhead for the United States Patent Office, with an engraved view of its Washington, D.C., building, is the subject here, and the picture shows how the agency presented itself on official paper. Architect Robert Mills designed the building in the Greek Revival style, and construction began in 1836 and continued for years. The building housed the Patent Office's records and models for much of the nineteenth century. The caption card gives no date, but engraved letterheads of this kind were common in government and business correspondence before the turn of the twentieth century, and this print is a photograph of that engraving.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | Photo of engraving. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Letterheads; DC, Wash.--Bldgs., US Govt.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,276 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133376 |
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