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[Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, exterior front, showing stairway] – Historic Photograph Print

[Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, exterior front, showing stairway], c1933. — historic photograph
[Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, exterior front, showing stairway], c1933.. 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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A window into the past: [Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, exterior front, showing stairway], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This view looks up the front stairway of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the granite and marble structure that opened in 1897 as the main home of the Library of Congress. The building was named for Thomas Jefferson, whose personal book collection, sold to Congress in 1815, helped form the library's foundation. The photograph was taken around 1933 by Theodor Horydczak, a Washington photographer who documented the city's buildings and streets over several decades. His record of the period shows how the Beaux-Arts monument looked to visitors in the years before the Great Depression's effects gave way to the New Deal.

Created / publishedc1933.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesJ12805 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Theodor Horydczak.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,115 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166042

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