Outside

c. 1913-18

The well-known, cube-shaped shining building at center pops up often among the historical glass-plate photographs at the Library of Congress. These include the one above, taken from the top of the Washington Monument well before aerial photography was common.

c. 1910-20

1914

c. 1880-97

c. 1916-19

c. 1905

1869

ca. 1900-06

c. 1900-06

c. 1920

1904

1911

I became fascinated with wildly various perspectives preserved in the archives. These fine-grained durable images were made with vanished technologies. Yet they seem to retain and still to convey some fragment of emotion brought to the viewing by the images' earliest viewers.

1817

c. 1846