Virginia State Library, capitol's grounds, Richmond, Va. – Vintage Print
![Virginia State Library, capitol's grounds, Richmond, Va., [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f0/f0453b0f5875-L.webp)
(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 historic photograph of Virginia State Library, capitol's grounds, Richmond, Va.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Virginia State Library, capitol's grounds, Richmond, Va.
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This view places the Virginia State Library on the grounds of the Capitol in Richmond, the seat of state government since the late eighteenth century. The Capitol itself, designed with Thomas Jefferson's involvement and completed in 1788, stands at the center of Capitol Square, and the library's location there tied the state's government and its books together in one civic landscape. The glass negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely between about 1900 and 1920 to document American towns, parks and public buildings. Its dating is an estimate from the record.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072506. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Capitols. Libraries. Parks.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-73567 |
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