SE view from dome of U.S. Capitol, showing Carroll Row (present site of Libraryof Congress) in left foreground

Photograph shows Carroll Row, a block of five houses at 1st & A Street, SE, built about 1800 and razed in 1887 for construction of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. Includes the sign "Architect."
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Photograph attributed to Levin C. Handy in Capital Losses, by James Goode. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003, p. 171.
Print in this LOT was made before the glass negative cracked.
Caption card tracings: DC, Wash Streets; DC, Wash. 1870-; Shelf.