2-365-458 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Capitol without its dome, Washington DC, USA, c1858 (1955). Old Canal and greenhouse in the foreground. The original copper dome of the Capitol was removed in the 1850s when the building was extended. It was replaced by the dome that exists today that was built between 1855 and 1866. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.