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A spectacular armchair tour of Washington, D.C. from the unique photographic lens of Carol Highsmith, photographer of the Photographic Tour and Pictorial Souvenir series. Oversized, with 300 four-color photographs, this is a treasury of pictures of America's beautiful capital.
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The images of Washington photographer Carol M. Highsmith that fill this book also inspire as well as inform. They capture the rebirth of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue corridor and Union Station; the splendor of the Library of Congress, George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, and Washington's foreign embassies; and memorable restoration projects in all fifty states. Like Frances Benjamin Johnston - the nation's first notable female photographer, who captured many of the same scenes as they looked a century ago - she is donating her life's work to the Library of Congress, which has created the Carol M. Highsmith Archive to receive it.
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