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Negative Date
1862-64
filename
UCSLStillmanAlb6_p08v01.jpg
Subject-Place
Italy, Rome
Size
37 x 28.5 cm.
Description
This photograph, though washed out and slightly out of focus, shows the Forum in a very early stage of its excavation. The tree-lined allée at left was put in by Pope Pius IX in the 1850s. The now-familiar excavations on the site would not begin until after the unification of Italy in 1870. After that, the site would begin its transformation into the familar open-air archeological complex.