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[View of the U.S. Capitol from Northwest] – Antique Photo Print

[View of the U.S. Capitol from Northwest], c1911. — historic photograph
[View of the U.S. Capitol from Northwest], c1911.. Historic photograph from the U.S. Capitol 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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[View of the U.S. Capitol from Northwest] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[View of the U.S. Capitol from Northwest]

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This northwest view shows the U.S. Capitol from an angle that emphasizes its massing, with the dome rising above the wings, rather than the more familiar east front facing the Mall. The picture dates to about 1911, when the building had stood in its enlarged form for more than four decades, since the wings were completed in the 1860s and the cast-iron dome was finished in 1866. Its copyright-deposit number suggests it was registered for copyright, a common route by which early photographs entered the Library of Congress. The catalog record is brief, so the photographer and exact vantage point are unconfirmed.

Created / publishedc1911.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ150318 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,216 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158413

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