Pennsylvania Avenue looking northwest
Pennsylvania Avenue looking northwest, from a perch on Capitol Hill, about 1848. Washington’s crowded “main street” stretches to the White House (dimly visible on the left). The larger building on the right is the Winder Building, completed during the Mexican War. This daguerreotype is a reverse image, so in reality the White House would be seen on the right.
- Date of Work
- c. 1848
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Credit
- National Archives and Records Administration
