A Cool Photo: Painting the Capitol Dome on August 26th, 1922

Published November 18, 2013Updated March 22, 20221 min readby ghostsofdc

What a cool photo. This was taken on August 26th, 1922, when this gentleman was hanging from the top of the Capitol to paint it.

Source: Library of Congress

3 thoughts on “A Cool Photo: Painting the Capitol Dome on August 26th, 1922”

George T.

November 18, 2013 at 11:31 am

Big project – Small brush

Must be a Government Contract.
Henry

November 19, 2013 at 9:40 am

Wouldn’t that be Acrophobia instead of Agoraphobia?
Tom

November 19, 2013 at 10:08 am

Oops, yes

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