Pa. Ave., D.C. from the Treasury Dept. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Pa. Ave., D.C. from the Treasury Dept. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pa. Ave., D.C. from the Treasury Dept.
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Few American streets carried as much ceremonial weight as Pennsylvania Avenue, and this stereograph looks along it from the Treasury Department, the building that anchored the avenue's western end near the White House. Its two slightly offset images were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which fused them into a single scene with apparent depth. Stereo cards like this one were a popular parlor entertainment in the late nineteenth century, bringing views of cities, monuments and street life into American homes. The 1890 date and the attribution to J.F. Jarvis come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo by J.F. Jarvis. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,494 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109965 |
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