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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Wall Art

[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] — historic photograph
[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]. Historic photograph from the Library of Congress 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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[The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

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This view shows the Library of Congress's own building on Capitol Hill, which opened to readers in 1897 after decades of crowding into the Capitol. The collection dates to 1800 and nearly disappeared when British troops burned the Capitol in 1814, until Thomas Jefferson sold his personal library to Congress to restart it. Photographed only a year or so after opening, the marble building with its dome and sculpted facades was meant to match the ambitions of a growing national collection.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,345 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124206

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