[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., east front elevation] [graphic].
Plumbe, John, 1809-1857, photographer.
still image
Architectural photographs 1840-1850. gmgpc
Daguerreotypes 1840-1850. gmgpc
[ca. 1846]
eng
Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures--Imagination": Early Views of Washington. Several government buildings were among the first edifices in the nation's capital to be recorded by the relatively new medium of photography. John Plumbe, Jr., the first professional photographer in Washington, D.C., operated a studio in the mid-1840s. Plumbe's image of the Capitol, with its former copper-sheathed wooden dome, is the earliest surviving photograph of the building.
Title devised by Library staff.
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The Joy of Looking: Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2023.
Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 142.
Published in: "Architecture ..." chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Built Environment section.
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1840-1850.
Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03595
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c10213
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a53369
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