File:The old Texas General Land Office Building, now the Texas Capitol Visitor Center, in Austin, Texas LCCN2014632482.tif
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[edit]DescriptionThe old Texas General Land Office Building, now the Texas Capitol Visitor Center, in Austin, Texas LCCN2014632482.tif |
English: Title: The old Texas General Land Office Building, now the Texas Capitol Visitor Center, in Austin, Texas
Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; The oldest surviving state government office building in the city, it was the first building designed by a university-trained architect (German architect Christoph Conrad Stremme). The building features a dramatic medieval-castle style known as Rundbogenstil, or "rounded arch" around the windows and doors. The exterior walls are limestone rubble smoothed over with stucco and scored to simulate cut stone blocks. The Land Office was completed in 1857 on the southeast corner of the Texas State Capitol grounds. One employee, William Sidney Porter, later became famous as short-story writer O. Henry. Porter worked in the office from 1887 to 1891 and later set several of his stories there. The building functioned as the state's land office building until 1917 when the agency moved to a larger building across the street. From 1919 until 1989, the building housed museums run by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and United Daughters of the Confederacy.; Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. |
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Date | Taken on 19 April 2014, 15:20 (according to Exif data) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Camera location | 30° 16′ 22.84″ N, 97° 44′ 22.44″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 30.273010; -97.739568 |
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Image title | The old Texas General Land Office Building, now the Texas Capitol Visitor Center, in Austin, Texas. The oldest surviving state government office building in the city, it was the first building designed by a university-trained architect (German architect Christoph Conrad Stremme). The building features a dramatic medieval-castle style known as Rundbogenstil, or "rounded arch" around the windows and doors. The exterior walls are limestone rubble smoothed over with stucco and scored to simulate cut stone blocks. The Land Office was completed in 1857 on the southeast corner of the Texas State Capitol grounds. One employee, William Sidney Porter, later became famous as short-story writer O. Henry. Porter worked in the office from 1887 to 1891 and later set several of his stories there. The building functioned as the state's land office building until 1917 when the agency moved to a larger building across the street. From 1919 until 1989, the building housed museums run by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and United Daughters of the Confederacy. |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
Camera model | NIKON D800 |
Author | Photographer: Carol M. Highsmith |
Exposure time | 1/160 sec (0.00625) |
F-number | f/10 |
ISO speed rating | 100 |
Date and time of data generation | 15:20, 19 April 2014 |
Lens focal length | 26 mm |
Latitude | 30° 16′ 22.84″ N |
Longitude | 97° 44′ 22.45″ W |
Altitude | 167 meters above sea level |
Width | 4,912 px |
Height | 4,415 px |
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Compression scheme | LZW |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Number of rows per strip | 8 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Ver.1.02 |
File change date and time | 15:56, 12 May 2014 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Date and time of digitizing | 15:20, 19 April 2014 |
APEX shutter speed | 7.321928 |
APEX aperture | 6.643856 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 3 APEX (f/2.83) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 4 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Focal plane X resolution | 2,048.4022216797 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 2,048.4022216797 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 26 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Scene control | None |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Subject distance range | Unknown |
GPS time (atomic clock) | 20:20 |
Satellites used for measurement | 08 |
Reference for direction of image | Magnetic direction |
Direction of image | 53.38 |
Geodetic survey data used | WGS 84 |
GPS date | 19 April 2014 |
GPS tag version | 0.0.3.2 |
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- Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive
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- Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith