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Title: Washington album

Author: Anonymous

Release date: June 23, 2022 [eBook #68387]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: J. F. Jarvis

Credits: Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

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Transcriber’s Note

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WASHINGTON ALBUM

Published & Copyrighted, 1891, by J. F. Jarvis, Washington D.C.

Phot. Im. Louis Glaser, Leipzig - 115 Worth Str. N. Y.

NORTH EAST FRONT OF THE CAPITOL.

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THE ROTUNDA.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
U. S. SENATE CHAMBER.

PANORAMIC VIEW OF WASHINGTON.

    1  ARLINGTON.     2  AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.     3  SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE.     4  NATIONAL MUSEUM.     5  WASHINGTON MONUMENT.     6  BOTANICAL GARDENS.     7  STATE DEPARTMENT.     8  CENTRAL MARKET.     9  BALTIMORE & POTOMAC R.R.     10  TREASURY.     11  GEORGETOWN COLLEGE.     12  POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.     13  PATENT & LAND OFFICE DEPT.     14  HOWARD UNIVERSITY.     15  BALTIMORE & OHIO R.R.     16  GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

U.S. CAPITOL.

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THE NATIONAL LIBRARY.

CITY HALL & LINCOLN COLUMN.

 

WASHINGTON, FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

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PRESIDENT’S MANSION, NORTH VIEW.

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THE BLUE ROOM.
EAST ROOM, WHITE HOUSE.
THE RED ROOM.
THE GREEN ROOM.

CASH ROOM, TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

 

U.S. TREASURY.

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DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOM.

 

STATE, WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS.

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SETTING THE CAP STONE.

IN THE ELEVATOR.

 

CAPSTONE OF THE MONUMENT,
SHOWING THE ALUMINIUM TIP.

ENTRANCE TO THE MONUMENT.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT.

HEIGHT 555 FEET.
WEIGHT 81,120 TONS.
COST $ 1,187,710.

CORNER STONE LAID JULY 4th 1848.
CAP STONE SET DECEMBER 6th 1884.
INAUGURATED FEBRUARY 22d 1885.

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GENL WASHINGTON.
PEACE MONUMENT, AT FOOT OF THE CAPITOL.
GARFIELD STATUE AND CAPITOL.
GENL JACKSON.
GENL THOMAS.
GENL MC.PHERSON.
EMANCIPATION STATUE,
IN LINCOLN PARK.
STATUE OF FREEDOM, ON DOME OF THE CAPITOL.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
CORCORAN ART GALLERY.
SOLDIERS’ HOME.

NORTH HALL, MUSEUM OF MODELS,
PATENT OFFICE.

 

THE U.S. PATENT OFFICE.

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BUREAU OF ENGRAVING & PRINTING.
THOMAS’ CIRCLE FROM THE PORTLAND FLATS, LOOKING N.W.
NATIONAL MUSEUM.
U.S. PENSION BUREAU.
MT. VERNON MANSION, RIVER FRONT.

TOMB OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.
MT. VERNON.

TOMB OF THE 2111 UNKNOWN SOLDIERS.
ARLINGTON, LATE RESIDENCE OF GENL ROBERT LEE.
SOLDIERS’ GRAVES.

Transcriber’s Notes

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

This picture book has no Table of Contents or page numbers.

The panoramic view of Washington contains 16 numbered landmarks. The numbers are small and almost indistinguishable against the background, so the Transcriber has circled them in red. They still are small, so the highlighting and the numbers within them are more easily seen in the large version of the image, when it is viewed full-size.

Three illustrations included a small inset image in the upper-right-hand corner. That format and the associated captions have been preserved here, rather than identifying the insets as separate illustrations.