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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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those respectivelocalities is overwhelmed by a profusion of them. My career as a collector of state capitols is thus dividedsharply into two periods; the early, characterized by anavoidance of the obvious (due to an overplus of theory andunderpins of experience), and the present, in which theproximity of a dome leads automatically to the click of theshutter. State capitols are difficult subjects, since you must see themfrom the same point of view from which everyone else seesthem, and originality of treatment is almost impossible. Nearlyall of them are abundantly domed. At Madison, Wis., theshining white dome dominates a three-cornered structure—three wings radiating from it. The dome is similar to thatof the capitol at Washington—the only closer resemblancethat I know of is the one at Sacramento. My cameravisited Madison on a sunny Sunday, but on the tenth floor ofa near-by office building a room was found open, and fromthe window of this room our view was taken. The anastig- 216
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STATE CAPITOL,MADISON, WIS. GEORGE STEELE SEYMOUR. 217 mat brought out nicely all the fine details, though the viewis, of course, without any artistic pretentions. In quaint, historic Sante Fe, the field proved morefavorable. Down the romantic lane habited by the Mexicanmaiden, an air of mystery is lent to the undersized buildingwith its unmistakably tinnish dome. The tin dome makermust once have been popular, for at Salem, Oregon, we comeacross him again. Its neighbor, Olympia, however, resistedhis enchantment, and Washington State has adopted as hercapitol a brown stone building that would pass creditably fora union station. Some states have spent millions in the effort to make theirofficial headquarters a focus of art and talent. St. Paulboasts an architectural gem; Harrisburg, with all its reputedgraft, is ornately decorated. New York has erected a Frenchchateau on the top of a steep slope—a most unreasonablelocation, from a photographers way of thinking. The onlyway I know of t

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