Building the first White House, Washington, D.C., 1798. Modern Washington is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Building the first White House, Washington, D.C., 1798. Modern Washington is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Building the first White House, Washington, D.C., 1798. Modern Washington is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad
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Here the artist sets the first White House, still under construction in its raw stone, against the rail-served capital of 1931, a pairing the Pennsylvania Railroad used to tie its service to the nation's past. In the late 1790s Washington was a newly planned city, with scattered building sites and unpaved streets, and the presidential residence was among its most closely watched projects. Newell Convers Wyeth, a leading illustrator of his day, produced this color offset, and his historical scenes of this kind were a staple of American railroad advertising in the period.
| Created / published | c1931 Sept. 28. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Notes | K14526 U.S. Copyright Office Color offset by Newell Convers Wyeth. Copyright not renewed 1959. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 4,269 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173025 |
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