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White House U.S. Treasury & Penn. Ave. Washington D.C. – Antique Wall Art

White House U.S. Treasury & Penn. Ave. Washington D.C., 1900 — historic photograph
White House U.S. Treasury & Penn. Ave. Washington D.C., 1900. Historic photograph from the White House collection.

(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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A window into the past: White House U.S. Treasury & Penn. Ave. Washington D.C., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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White House U.S. Treasury & Penn. Ave. Washington D.C.

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Few views of the White House from this period frame it alongside the Treasury Building and Pennsylvania Avenue in a single scene, which is what sets this stereograph apart. Stereo cards like this were sold for parlor viewers, and the paired images gave viewers a sense of depth that a flat photograph could not. The Treasury Building, just to the east of the executive mansion, had taken much of its current form by the late 1860s, so by 1900 the two neighboring government buildings and the busy avenue between them were a familiar civic landmark. The card carries a copyright notice in the name of C.L. Wasson, a reminder of how these views were produced and marketed.

Created / published1900
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
Notes35354 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 259c. Copyright by C.L. Wasson.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington D.C.)--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,416 × 2,604 px · prints to 11 × 9 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-STV-268005

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