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Post Office extension, frame for skylight to areas – Antique Print

Post Office extension, frame for skylight to areas, [between ca. 1852 and ca. 1860] — historic photograph
Post Office extension, frame for skylight to areas, [between ca. 1852 and ca. 1860]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Post Office extension, frame for skylight to areas comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Post Office extension, frame for skylight to areas

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The frame in this photograph was built to hold a skylight over the areas, or light wells, of the Post Office extension. The caption card dates the picture to somewhere between about 1852 and 1860, a period when the federal Post Office Department's Washington building was being enlarged to house a growing mail operation. Skylights like this one brought daylight into interior rooms that would otherwise have been dark, so the view shows how builders solved a practical problem of light. The date and details come from an unverified caption card, so treat them as provisional.

Created / published[between ca. 1852 and ca. 1860]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,376 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160188

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