Washington, D.C., Sights Before 1850: A Select List of Images
NOTE: Links to digital images have been provided when such images are available.
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![Washington](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a17000/3a17400/3a17419t.gif)
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Description: "Washington." Black and white aquatint
by George Isham Parkyns. Published 1795 by James Harrison of New York.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-D-Parkyns,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-15170
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![View of the Suburbs [Georgetown] of the City of Washington](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a05000/3a05500/3a05500t.gif) |
Description: "View of the Suburbs [Georgetown]
of the City of Washington." Black and white aquatint by George Isham
Parkyns, ca. 1795.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-B-Parkyns,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-34.
Reproduction number:LC-USZ62-1750
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC2-1327
(color film copy slide) |
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![Washington in 1800](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c02000/3c02000/3c02054t.gif) |
Description: "Washington in 1800." (Note: poplars
were planted in 1803). Black and white wood engraving from A
System of Universal Geography, Vol. 2 (between pp. 222 & 223)
by Conrad Malte-Brun (Boston, Samuel Walker, 1834).
Location: Original in G115.M27 (plate
missing from LC copies), reference copy in P&P
LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction number: LC-USA7-35646 (black & white film negative); LC-USZ62-102054
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![A View of the Capitol of Washington before it was burnt down by the British [showing the north wing and the distant city.]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/07700/07708t.gif) |
Description: "A View of the Capitol of Washington
before it was burnt down by the British" [showing the north wing and
the distant city.] Watercolor by William Birch, ca. 1800.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Birch,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-6BA.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-1804
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-247
(color film copy transparency) |
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![George Town and Federal City, or City of Washington](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a08000/3a08000/3a08058t.gif) |
Description:"George Town and Federal City, or
City of Washington." Color aquatint by T. Cartwright of London after
George Beck of Philadelphia. Published 1801 by Atkins & Nightingale
of London and Philadelphia.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-C-Cartwright,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-4702
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-530
(color film copy transparency) |
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![View from Blodgett's Hotel to the White House](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a40000/3a48000/3a48800/3a48897t.gif)
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Description: [View from Blodgett's Hotel to the
White House.] Black and white photograph, ca. 1898, of a watercolor,
ca. 1803, by Nicholas King in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Location: Reference copy in P&P
LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-48766
(black & white film copy negative made in 1973
of a contact photograph from a glass copy negative
made by Frances Benjamin Johnston, ca. 1898, now
broken) |
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![U.S. Capitol, east front](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/09500/09501t.gif) |
Description: [U.S. Capitol, east front.] Watercolor
by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1806.
Location: Original in P&P ADE
- UNIT 2462, no. 13 (D size); reference copy in P&P
LOT 4386-6CFA.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-37197
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-1090
(color film copy transparency) |
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![U.S. Capitol and Pennsylvania Avenue before 1814](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b50000/3b51000/3b51800/3b51810t.gif)
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Description: [U.S. Capitol and Pennsylvania Avenue
before 1814.] Ink, wash, and gouache drawing. Unattributed (formerly
attributed to Benjamin Henry Latrobe; "B.H.L." appears on drawing),
ca. 1819.
Location: Original in Rare Book
Reading Room (NA4411.U27 1814); reference copy in
P&P LOT 4386-6BA.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-4538
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-227
(color film copy transparency) |
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![The Taking of the City of Washington in America](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g04000/3g04500/3g04555t.gif) |
Description: "The Taking of the City of Washington
in America." Black and white engraving published 1814 by G. Thompson
of West Smithfield.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-C-Thompson,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-25.
Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-4555 (color film copy transparency); LC-USZ62-1939 (black & white film copy negative) |
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![A View of the President's House in the City of Washington after the Conflagration of the 24th, August 1814](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b50000/3b51000/3b51900/3b51941t.gif) |
Description: "A View of the President's House in
the City of Washington after the Conflagration of the 24th, August
1814." Color aquatint by William Strickland after George Munger, ca.
1814.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-B-Strickland,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-59G.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-7578
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-405
(color film copy transparency) |
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![A View of the Capitol of the United States after the Conflagration of the 24th August 1814](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b50000/3b51000/3b51900/3b51944t.gif) |
Description: "A View of the Capitol of the United
States after the Conflagration of the 24th August 1814." Color aquatint
by William Strickland after George Munger, ca. 1814.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-B-Strickland,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-6D.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-1802
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-408
(color film copy transparency) |
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![The Capitol. Washington D.C. West Front from the City Hall](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c20000/3c25000/3c25000/3c25087t.gif) |
Description: "West Front of the Capitol of the United
States" [showing the poplar-lined Pennsylvania Avenue and commemorating
the Marquis de Lafayette's 1824 visit to the Capitol.] Black and white
photograph, ca. 1910s-20s, of a painting, 1824, by Charles Burton in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Location: Photograph in P&P
LOT 12663, reference copies in P&P LOT 4386-6CFA
and 51.
Reproduction number:LC-USZ62-125087
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![The Capitol. Washington D.C. West Front from the City Hall](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g05000/3g05700/3g05760t.gif) |
Description:"The Capitol. Washington D.C. West
Front from the City Hall." Sketched and drawn by Thomas Doughty. Black
and white lithograph published 1832 by Childs & Inman of Philadelphia.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-A-Childs,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-51545
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-5760
(color film copy transparency) |
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![City of Washington From beyond the Navy Yard](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b50000/3b51000/3b51900/3b51990t.gif) |
Description: "City of Washington From beyond the
Navy Yard." Color aquatint by William James Bennett after George Cooke.
Published 1834 by Lewis P. Clover of New York.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-C-Bennett,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-2737
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-480
(color film copy transparency) |
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![View of the City of Washington...from Arlington House](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/09300/09301t.gif) |
Description: "View of the City of Washington...from
Arlington House..." Black and white lithograph by Fitz Hugh Lane after
P[eter?] Anderson. Published by T[homas?] Moore's Lithography, Boston.
Copyrighted 1838 by P[eter?] Anderson.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-D-Lane,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-09301 (digital file from original print)
LC-USZ62-15281 (black & white film copy negative) |
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![Canal, Potomac river. Georgetown D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a20000/3a25000/3a25100/3a25184t.gif) |
Description: "Canal, Potomac river. Georgetown
D.C." Gray and sepia wash drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
4, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-34.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-24236
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![Potomac River. Chain bridge at Little Falls](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a03000/3a03000/3a03099t.gif) |
Description: "Potomac River. Chain bridge at Little
Falls." Sepia wash drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
6, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-4.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ61-1344
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![Bank of Columbia, Georgetown. D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g05000/3g05600/3g05634t.gif) |
Description: "Bank of Columbia, Georgetown. D.C." Watercolor
by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
8, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-14.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-110976
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-5634
(color film copy transparency) |
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![Capitol and part of Washington City](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a05000/3a05500/3a05554t.gif)
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Description: "Capitol and part of Washington City." Gray
and sepia wash drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
9, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-1806
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![Steamboat Wharf, Washington, D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a05000/3a05500/3a05549t.gif) |
Description: "Steamboat Wharf, Washington, D.C." Gray
and sepia wash drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
10, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-46.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-1801 (black & white film copy negative) |
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![Tiber Creek. North east of the Capitol. Washington, D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a30000/3a30000/3a30500/3a30545t.gif) |
Description: "Tiber Creek. North east of the Capitol.
Washington, D.C." Pen and black ink drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
11, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-46.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-29876
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-535
(color film copy transparency) |
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![East Branch of Potomac R. Washington](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b50000/3b52000/3b52000/3b52030t.gif) |
Description: "East Branch of Potomac R. Washington." Watercolor
by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
12, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-46.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-31472
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-532
(color film copy transparency) |
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![Near Pennsylvania Ave. and 7th St. At Washington City [showing First Unitarian Church.]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a08000/3a08700/3a08713t.gif) |
Description: "Near Pennsylvania Ave. and 7th St.
At Washington City" [showing First Unitarian Church.] Sepia wash drawing
by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
13, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-34.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-5404
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-534
(color film copy transparency) |
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![Capitol at Washington D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g04000/3g04400/3g04405t.gif) |
Description: "Capitol at Washington D.C." Gray
and sepia wash drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
14, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-6CFA.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-1807
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-4405
(color film copy transparency) |
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![Draw at Longbridge, Washington City](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g05000/3g05600/3g05635t.gif) |
Description: "Draw at Longbridge, Washington City." Sepia
wash drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
15, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-4.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-110977
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-5635
(color film copy transparency) |
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![South Gateway of the Capitol at Washington, D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g01000/3g01700/3g01742t.gif) |
Description: "South Gateway of the Capitol at Washington,
D.C." Gray and sepia wash drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
16, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-6CFA.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-23812
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-1742
(color film copy transparency) |
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![East branch. Potomac River](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a51000/3a51500/3a51584t.gif) |
Description: "East branch. Potomac River." Gray
wash drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
18, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-46.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-51544
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![In Washington City](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g01000/3g01700/3g01744t.gif) |
Description: "In Washington City." Pen and black
ink drawing by August Kollner, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
19, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-49.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-5403
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-1744
(color film copy transparency) |
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![Washington City north of Capitol in 1839](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b00000/3b00000/3b00600/3b00672t.gif) |
Description: "Washington City north of Capitol
in 1839." Pen and black ink drawing, 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-A-Kollner
20, reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-34.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-52693 (black & white film copy negative) |
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![View of Washington looking north-west from south-east of the U.S. Capitol](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b50000/3b51000/3b51900/3b51998t.gif) |
Description: [View of Washington looking north-west
from south-east of the U.S. Capitol.] Watercolor and gouache, possibly
by August Kollner, ca. 1839.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-D-Anonymous,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-15169
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-488
(color film copy transparency) |
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![Patent Office, houses, and yards](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/dag/3g/3g03000/3g03596t.gif) |
Description: [Patent Office, houses, and yards.]
Daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr., ca. 1846.
Location: Original in P&P Dag.
No. 1229, reference copy in P&P LOT 11338.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-110212
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-3596
(color film copy transparency) |
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![U.S. Capitol and east grounds](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/dag/3g/3g03000/3g03595t.gif) |
Description: [U.S. Capitol and east grounds.] Daguerreotype
by John Plumbe, Jr., ca. 1846.
Location: Original in P&P Dag.
No. 1230, reference copy in P&P LOT 11338.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-110213
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-3595
(color film copy transparency) |
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![White House and south grounds](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/dag/3c/3c12000/3c12293t.gif) |
Description: [White House and south grounds.] Daguerreotype
by John Plumbe, Jr., ca. 1846.
Location: Original in P&P Dag.
No. 1231, reference copy in P&P LOT 11338.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-112293
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![General Post Office and environs at 7th and E Streets, N.W.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g05000/3g05600/3g05636t.gif) |
Description: [General Post Office and environs at
7th and E Streets, N.W.] Daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr., ca. 1846.
Location: Original in P&P Dag.
No. 1225, reference copy in P&P LOT 11338.
Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-5636 (color film copy transparency); LC-USZ6-2096
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![Elements of National Thrift and Empire](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a20000/3a20000/3a20200/3a20298t.gif) |
Description: "Elements of National Thrift and Empire." Black
and white lithograph by Edward Weber & Co. of Baltimore after Joseph
Goldsborough Bruff. Copyrighted 1847 by Robert Mayo.
Location: Original in P&P PGA-A-Weber,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-18134
(black & white film copy negative) |
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![From the back 2nd story of the residence of Mrs. Com[modo]re John Rodgers, Franklin Row, K Street at 12 and 13 Sts](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g05000/3g05600/3g05633t.gif) |
Description: "From the back 2nd story of the residence
of Mrs. Com[modo]re John Rodgers, Franklin Row, K Street at 12 & 13
Sts." Watercolor by Montgomery C. Meigs, 1850.
Location: Original in P&P DRWG/US-B-Meigs,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-34.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-110975
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-5633
(color film copy transparency) |
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![View of Washington [looking west from U.S. Capitol]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090109152647im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b50000/3b52000/3b52700/3b52788t.gif) |
Description: "View of Washington" [looking west
from U.S. Capitol]. Color lithograph and sepia tint lithograph, copyrighted
1850 by Robert P. Smith.
Location: Originals in P&P PGA-D-Smith,
reference copy in P&P LOT 4386-56.
Reproduction numbers: LC-USZ62-3279
(black & white film copy negative); LC-USZC4-1282
(color film copy transparency) |
Prepared by: Sam Daniel, Reference Specialist. Last revised:
11/03/06
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