D.C., Washington, Treasury Building, 1898, Exterior – 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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This rare historic print captures D.C., Washington, Treasury Building, 1898, Exterior in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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D.C., Washington, Treasury Building, 1898, Exterior
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The Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., is the subject here, shown from the outside in a photochrom print made around 1898. Its sprawling Greek Revival and later additions sit just east of the White House, and the building housed the federal government's money-management offices for much of the nineteenth century. The photochrom process, a color method adapted from Swiss lithography, was popular in the 1890s for turning photographs into vivid tourist views. The Detroit Photographic Company, which issued this image, was among the firms that produced such prints for the American market, so the picture captures both a federal landmark and a moment in commercial color printing.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by Detroit Photo Co. No. 53241. |
| Subjects | United States.--Dept. of the Treasury--Buildings--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,134 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162970 |
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