Construction of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building 1

Construction of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building
Title: Construction of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building
Creator(s): Handy, Levin C. (Levin Corbin), 1855-1932, photographer
Date Created/Published: ca. 1880-1896.
Summary: Includes architectural details and decorative elements. Statues, newly uncrated; architectural models of the Main Reading Room and dome; reading room furniture; plaster models of ethnographic heads; scaffolding in place for mural work; interiors under construction and rooms near completion; stone carvers at work; view of north side of building; view of East Capitol Street from the Library of Congress dome; construction workers on the grounds; horse-drawn construction wagons; street-paving crews.
Notes:
LOT title and other information from catalog card and published guide: Washingtoniana Photographs ... Library of Congress, 1989.
Corresponding glass negatives in series LC-USL5 and LC-USL51 (prints and negatives not matched). Images also available in Microfilm LOT 12365, mounted as panoramas in LOT 12042, and as cyanotype proofs mounted in bound volumes in LOT 12335. Some also included in P&P Geographical File made from copy negatives in series LC-USP6. Some photos captioned.
Images mounted on cardboard; some captioned.
Purchase (negatives in LC Disbursing Office); L.C. Handy; 1914; (DLC/PP-1914:44728).
Subjects:
Library of Congress--Buildings--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1900.
Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.)--1880-1900.
Libraries--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1900.
Building construction--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1900.
Albumen prints--1880-1900.
Bookmark /2004667309/
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