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1. The cover, The Chesapeake Illustrated, published by Augustus Parlett Lloyd (Baltimore, [c1879]).
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2. The cover, At and Near the Capital: Familiar Letters to a Young American from an American Who Is No Longer Young, by Robert Bruce Warden (Washington: Ernest Institute, 1886).
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3. Title page, chapter one, The History of Virginia, in Four Parts, by Robert Beverley (London, Printed for B. and S. Tooke, 1722).
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4. "Atchievement of The Right Honourable Coecilius Coluert Baron Baltemore de Baltemore in the Kingdome of Ireland Absolute Lord and Proprietary of ye Provinces of Maryland and Avalon in America," The Calvert Papers, Vol. 1, J. Murphy & Co., Printers (1889-99).
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5. "President Washington, aided by his brother Freemasons, of Georgetown and Alexandria, laid the Corner Stone of the Capitol, under what is now the Law Library, on the 18th day of September, 1793," Reminiscences of the District of Columbia, by Mrs. Sarah E. Vedder (St. Louis, Mo.: Press A. R. Fleming Printing Co. [c1909]).
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6. Illustration of the shield of Virginia, from the eighteenth century. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts, by Robert Beverley (London: Printed for B. and S. Tooke, 1722).
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