Object Details
- Author
- Curt Teich & Co
- B.S. Reynolds Co. Washington, DC
- Subject
- Library of Congress
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Color postcard with a semi-aerial view of the Library of Congress. The postcard is unused, but the message side has a printed note: "The Library of Congress, justly celebrated as the culmination of architectural achievement of the day, was completed in 1897 at a cost of $6,000,000. The Library is here seen from the Capitol. The dome and lantern are finished in black copper, with panels gilded with a thin coating of gold leaf; and the cresting of the dome terminates in a gilded finial representing the torch of Science ever burning." The front of the postcard has a white border.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 84, Folder: 29
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1932
- Standard number
- SIA2013-06671 (front) and SIA2013-06672 (back)
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Postcard
- Linen
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 2; Color: Color; Size: 5.5w x 3.5h; Type of Image: Postcard; Medium: Linen
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Postcard
- Buildings
- Architecture--Washington (D.C.)
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13915
