Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Title Capitol at Washington, 1857. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by Cremer & Co., South Eighth St
Date 1857
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Faded view showing the United States Capitol building with a canal in the foreground. Also shows a docked rowboat and piles of lumber stacked on the ground nearby. Capitol building built 1793-1829 after the designs of Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Charles Bulfinch and the current dome and the House and Senate wing extensions by Thomas U. Walter and August Schoenborn in the 1850s.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Publisher's label pasted on verso.
Green mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject United States Capitol (Washington, D. C.)
United States. Congress. House -- Buildings.
Canals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Latrobe, Benajmin Henry, 1764-1820, architect.
Associated name Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect.
Associated name Schoenborn, August, ca. 1827-1902, architect.
Associated name Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Government Buildings [P.8643.3]
Accession number P.8643.3