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[D.C.-Wash.-Library of Congress - official construction photos: Capitol dome viewed across bells and construction area] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[D.C.-Wash.-Library of Congress - official construction photos: Capitol dome viewed across bells and construction area], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[D.C.-Wash.-Library of Congress - official construction photos: Capitol dome viewed across bells and construction area], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Library of Congress collection.

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The Capitol dome rises above a foreground of bells and a busy construction area, placing the building's upper works in the middle of the working site. The cast-iron dome was built between 1855 and 1866 under architect Thomas U. Walter and engineer Montgomery C. Meigs, and the Statue of Freedom was raised to its top in 1863. The caption card gives no date and its details are unverified, so the photograph is best read as a record of that long building campaign in general terms.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108559

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