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United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. – Historic Reproduction

United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., [between 1872 and 1874] — antique lithograph
United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., [between 1872 and 1874]. Antique lithograph from the U.S. Capitol 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: United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Capitol's cast-iron dome had been finished only a few years when Currier & Ives issued this hand-colored lithograph from its Nassau Street office in New York, sometime between 1872 and 1874. The firm sold views like this to a broad middle-class market that wanted images of the nation's landmarks, and the color was applied by hand, often by workers using stencils to tint each impression. The building was still a work in progress in these years, with its extended wings under construction, so the print shows a structure that was both a symbol of the Union and an ongoing project.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., [between 1872 and 1874]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880.
NotesTitle from item. Conningham no. 5227a. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6783
SubjectsUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,440 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217317

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