Crisp and authoritative, this real-photo postcard captures the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in a brilliant mid-century black-and-white photograph — the Italian Renaissance dome gleaming against a dramatic cloudscape, the building's rusticated granite base and double colonnades commanding Capitol Hill with undeniable grandeur. Printed on Kodak paper (as indicated by the stamp box on the reverse), this RPPC was never mailed, preserving the photograph in excellent, gallery-quality condition. The Library, completed in 1897 and the largest in the world, was a perennial Washington souvenir subject, but real-photo versions on Kodak paper are scarcer and more desirable than their lithographed counterparts.