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U.S. Capitol – Historic Print

U.S. Capitol — historic image
U.S. Capitol. Historic image from the U.S. Capitol collection.

(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: U.S. Capitol, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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The U.S. Capitol sits on Capitol Hill at the east end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and it has served as the home of Congress since 1800, when the federal government moved to the new capital. Its white dome and long colonnaded wings are among the most recognizable buildings in the country, and the structure has grown over many decades, with the dome completed during the Civil War and the building expanded in stages through the 19th century. Pictures of it from this period often show the building still surrounded by open, unfinished grounds, a useful reminder of how the city itself was still taking shape.

Original scan2,468 × 2,964 px · prints to 8 × 10 in at 300 dpi
Reference1957 03317u

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