c. 1861Washington
United States Capitol — the Walter dome rising
Unidentified photographer. Period print of the dome under construction.
Street photograph
c. 1861·Washington
United States Capitol — the Walter dome rising
Unidentified photographer. Period print of the dome under construction.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The Capitol with Walter’s iron dome unfinished: scaffolding, a crane, the first columns of the new drum. A camera on a construction site in wartime Washington. Present status is surviving. Do not read the later completed dome back onto this exposure.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- United States Capitol
- Region
- North America
- Documented completion
- Dome completed 1866; wings 1850s.
- Architect
- Thomas U. Walter (dome)
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands. This plate records the dome as a job, not as a finished emblem.
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, ppmsca.99719.
- License
- Public domain.