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CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY, WASHINGTON,. D. C.
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DOMESTIC:
The Congressional Library,
Washington, D. C.
Justly celebrated as the culmination of architectural
achievement of the day, was completed in 1897
at a cost of over $6,000,000. The Library is
here seen from the Capitol. The dome and the
lantern are finished in black copper, with panels
gilded with thick coating of gold leaf; and the
cresting of the dome terminates in a gilded finial
representing the torch of Science ever burning.
FOREIGN:
visibt this imes.
apiel 8th 1916.
Beautiful lighted
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