[Building construction, Washington, D.C.]

[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Construction site for the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Monuments, Washington, D.C. Elevation - domed, colonnaded circular structure]

[U.S. Treasury Building, Washington, D.C.]. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

[Federal office buildings, Washington, D.C.]

[Washington, DC - Treasury Building]

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Photo shows a man and a boy in summer straw hats happily displaying some unidentifiable papers on F Street, with the Treasury and a new electric hooded arc streetlight in the background. One of a series of scenes near Painter's office at 14th and E streets, this picture bears the hallmarks of the new "snapshot" style now made possible by the invention of the quick, hand-held Kodak: natural smiles and the movement of the ladies under the umbrella. (Source:

Published in: "Uriah Hunt Painter and the 'Marvelous Kodak Camera,' by Mary Ison (Library staff). Washington History, vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall/Winter, 1990/1991), p. 30.

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