Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0371Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of the U.S. Treasury in Washington D.C., the Washington Monument is seen in the distance. Above the image "33" is printed, below the image "V20111 - U.S. Treasury Building, Guardian of Millions." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V26111
NORTH FRONT OF THE U. S. TREASURY BUILDING. WASHINGTON, D. C.
From the White house, a glimpse of which we can catch through the trees at the right of our present position, we have now entered a building at 15th St. and New York Ave. and are looking down from one of its windows upon the N. E. corner of the Treasury Building, with the Washington Monument in the distance beyond. The Treasury is one of the most beautiful of the government buildings, pure Grecian Ionic in architecture, with columns and pilasters rising through the three stories of its superstructure. It is made of Maine and New Hampshire granite, in the form of a rectangle with two inner courts, and its exterior dimensions are 468 ft. N. to S. and 264 ft. E. to W. The E. wing of the office, seen at our left, was the first protion built in 1869. Unfortunately the S. wing interfieres with the direct view from the White House to the Capitol. This condition is said to have been due to President Andrew Jackson, who, becoming impatient over delays occaioned by uncertainty as to the exact location of the new building, one day thrust his cane into the ground, exlaiming "Here, right here, I want the cornerstone laid."
The Treasury Building contains the officies of the Secretary of the Treasury and his staff and those of the fiscal bureaus. Ceratin exhibits relating to the coinage of money and medals are to be seen but the features which make the place most interesting, the Gold and Sivler Vaults, are not accessible to the eneral public. These vaults are in the sub-basement beneath the N. wing and they are gaurded by elaborate combinationnd time locks and an electrical protection system. In them are stored the greater part of the Government's gold and silver reserve, one vault alone being said to contain upward of $100,000,000 in coin.
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