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District of Columbia.. Bradford, T. G. 1802-1887. (Thomas Gamaliel), CREATED/PUBLISHED [Boston : T.G. Bradford, 1835] NOTES Shows major streets and buildings. Indexed for points of interest.

Johnson's Georgetown and the city of Washington : the capital of the United States of America / by Johnson and Ward.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York] : Johnson and Ward, [1862] NOTES Shows block numbers, wards, extent of built-up area, and major buildings. Includes ill.

Map of fortifications and defenses of Washington.. Hodasevich, R. A. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, D.C.? : s.n., 1865?] NOTES In left lower margin: Taken from a map issued by the War Department in 1865.

District of Columbia and the seat of war on the Potomac.. Bohn, Casimir. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, D.C. : C. Bohn, [186-?] (Baltimore : E. Sachse & Co.) NOTES Low-angle bird's-eye view. Shows cities of Washington and Alexandria in foreground. Includes index of military positions with regiment names.

Plan der stad Washington : bestemd tot de hoofdstad van America, en ter bestendige verblijfplaats van het Congres, naa het jaar 1800. . Kroe, A. van der. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Amsterdam : s.n., 1793] NOTES Shows proposed government buildings. Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Georgetown.

Plan of the city of Washington : now building for the metropolis of America, and established as the permanent residence of Congress after the year 1800 / B. Baker sculp. Islington.. Bent, William, 1747-1823. CREATED/PUBLISHED [London?] : Published by W. Bent, 1793. NOTES Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Georgetown.

Extract of military map of N.E. Virginia showing forts and roads.. United States. War Dept. Engineer Bureau. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, D.C.] : Engineer Bureau, War Dept., 1865. NOTES Covers Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Eastern corner of D.C. off map. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also shows rural householders' names and vegetation.

Catalogue of points of historic interest : [Washington D.C. and metropolitan area] / selected and marked by the Committee on Marking Points of Historic Interest for the Thirty-Sixth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Washington, 1902.. Grand Army of the Republic. Committee on Marking Points of Historic Interest. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington?] : The Committee, [1902?] NOTES Shows Civil War hospitals and fortifications. Includes text, directory of committee members, and ill. Descriptive index to points of interest and directories on verso. Map showing location of war-time hospitals -- Map of fortifications and defenses of Washington.

James E. Clements' map of Washington City and surrounding country.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, D.C. : James E. Clements, [1891?] (Washington : Andrew B. Graham, lithographer) NOTES Reference: Stephenson. Cartography of northern Virginia, pl. 88 Includes text and col. ill.

New railroad map of the state of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Compiled and drawn by Frank Arnold Gray.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia, 1876. SUMMARY Shows drainage, canals, stations, cities and towns, counties, canals, roads completed, narrow gauge and proposed railroads with names of lines. Includes list of railroads. NOTES Scale 1:633,600.

Plan of the city of Washington and territory of Columbia / engraved by W. & D. Lizars, Edin'r.. Lizars, W. H. 1788-1859. (William Home), CREATED/PUBLISHED [Edinburgh? : s.n., 1819?] NOTES Includes ill. of the Capitols at Richmond and Washington.

Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C.--the nation's capital / [drawn by] H.H. Green ; made for the B.S. Reynolds Company.. Green, H. H. CREATED/PUBLISHED Buffalo : Matthews Northrup Works, c1916. NOTES Low-angle view. Oriented with north toward the upper left.

The nation's capital : [Washington D.C.] / O. Yates del.. Weller, M. I. 1846-1915. (Michael Ignatius), CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington?] : M.I. Weller, c1909 (Washington : Norris Peters Co.) NOTES Shows radial distances, locations of "Committee on Public Comfort" and "Inaugural Committee," and block numbers. Includes list of presidential inaugurations, directory of "Inaugural Committee, March 4, 1909," street width directory, and U.S. coat of arms.

Birds eye view of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. [Drawn and engr. By J. Schedler, N.Y. Sarony, Major & Knapp liths., N.Y. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York; Paris; London W. Schauss c1861] NOTES Scale ca. 1:820,000.

Washington, the beautiful capital of the nation / [compliments of] Baltimore and Ohio, America's first railroad, Washington's first railroad. . Olsen, William. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, D.C. : Olsen, c1923. NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Bird's-eye view. Includes text and index to points of interest.

Panorama of the seat of war. Birds eye view of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia Drawn from nature and lith. by John Bachmann.. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York. A Rumpf, Publisher. Agent for John Bachmann's publications c1861. NOTES Scale not given. Battle sites are noted by crossed swords. This issue has clouds in the sky and smoke over the Manassas battlefield.

View of Washington City.. E. Sachse & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED Balt[im]o[re] : Lith. by E. Sachse & Co., [1871] NOTES Low-angle bird's-eye view of central Washington toward the west and northwest with The Capitol in foreground. Oriented with north toward the upper right.

Map of portions of Virginia and Maryland, extending from Baltimore to Strasburg, and from Washington to Gettysburg, with concentric circles at 5-mile intervals centering on Washington and on Baltimore. CREATED/PUBLISHED [186-] NOTES Relief shown by hachures.

Plan of the city of Washington / Thackara & Vallance sc.. L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Philadelphia : s.n., 1792]

Map of Washington, D.C., and environs : with marginal numbers and measuring tape attachment for instantly locating points of interest within a radius of twenty miles from the Capitol / by Axel Silversparre, C.E.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington : R.E. Whitman, c1887. NOTES Covers part of D.C., not "a radius of twenty miles from the Capitol." Depths shown by soundings. Includes inset, sector diagram, and source materials notes.

View of Georgetown D.C. / lith. and printed in colors by E. Sachse & Co.. TED/PUBLISHED Baltimore : Published and sold by E. Sachse & Co., [1855] SUMMARY View of Georgetown, D.C. looking west with the Potomac River on the left.

Within sight of the White House : section of Washington, D.C., known as "Hooker's Division," which contains 50 saloons and 109 bawdy-houses--list of 61 places where liquor is sold with government [sic] but without city licenses.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington? : s.n., 189-?] NOTES Cadastral map. Newspaper clipping. Includes text, directory of unlicensed premises, and index to points of interest.

B.H. Warner & Co.'s Map showing a bird's-eye view of the city of Washington and suburbs : locating the public buildings and places of interest / prepared by A.G. Gedney, Post Building, Washington, D.C. ; presented with compliments of B.H. Warner & Company.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington] : The Company, c1886. NOTES Shows block numbers. Selected points of interest and relief shown pictorially. Includes advertisements.

Panoramic view of Washington City : from the new dome of the Capitol, looking east / drawn from nature and print. in colors by E. Sachse & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, D.C. : Published by Casimir Bohn, c1857. SUMMARY Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C. looking east with the U.S. Capitol in the foreground.

Plan of the city of Washington.. Good, J. CREATED/PUBLISHED [London] : J. Good, [1793] NOTES At upper left: Literary Magazine. From Literary magazine and British review, Jan. 1793, opp. p. 49 (AP3.L62). Includes latitude/longitude statement and coat-of-arms.

View of Washington / drawn from nature and on stone by E. Sachse ; lith. and print in colors by E. Sachse & Comp.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Baltimore, Md. : Published and sold by E. Sachse & Co., c1852. SUMMARY Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C. looking west with the U.S. Capitol in the foreground.

Topography of the federal city, 1791 : [Washington D.C.] / by Don A. Hawkins, Washington, D.C.. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1990. NOTES Ms. map with original streets, roads, buildings, Washington city boundary (old), and hydrography in col. pencil on photocopy (ozalid) base. Relief shown by contours and shading.

Topographical map of Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction.. Magnus, Charles. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, Chs. Magnus, [1861?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:270,000. Reference: LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 451 Indicates Union and Confederate positions at "battle of Bull Run, July 21st 1861," Union encampments, towns, roads, the street pattern of Washington, railroads, rivers, and relief by hachures. Inset: Leesburg to Harpers Ferry. "Panoramic view of the fortifications around Washington" appears above the map.

Birds eye view of the city of Washington from the dome of the U.S. Capitol : Looking west / Lith. & print by A. Sachse & Co.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Balto., Md. : A. Sachse & Co., [between 1860 and 1890] SUMMARY Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C. with vignettes of prominent government and cultural buildings, and monuments depicted along the sides and bottom of the image.

Esso pictorial guide to Washington, D.C., and vicinity : 1942.. General Drafting Company. CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York?] : Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, [1942] NOTES "142." Selected buildings shown pictorially on city map.

Map of the seat of war!. Louis Prang and Company. CREATED/PUBLISHED Boston c1861. NOTES Various scales. Reference: LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 17 Containing a map of the vicinity of Washington, Baltimore, Harper's Ferry and Annapolis, with five mile distance lines from Washington. Map showing the railroad routes, coast lines and forts, between Boston and Norfolk harbor; map of Norfolk harbor, Fort Monroe and vicinity, with 1 mile distance lines from Ft. Monroe; Map of the vicinity of Richmond. Small map of the Atlantic states, showing the R.road connections; diagram of the camp at Cairo. Plan of Haper's Ferry! Portraits of Gen. B.F. Butler, the late Col. E. Ellsworth, &c. Includes portraits of Andrew Jackson and Gen. Winfield Scott rather than those of Gen. B. F. Butler and Col. E. Ellsworth.

The City of Washington : Birds-Eye view from the Potomac-looking North.. Currier & Ives. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892. SUMMARY Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C. looking north from the Potomac River with the Washington Monument in the foreground; prominent building and place names are listed below the image.

Washington, the Mall and vicinity, public buildings occupied by various government activities : 1917 / prepared by the Public Buildings Commission ; made under the direction of Colonel W.W. Harts and Colonel C.S. Ridley ; James G. Langdon, city planning designer ; drawn by K. Hilding Beij.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington : U.S. Senate, 1918?] (Washington : Norris Peters Co.) NOTES Cadastral map showing government buildings, all other buildings, and public lands.

The monumental and commercial center of the national capital and the surrounding residential neighborhoods : three dimensional map of central Washington / prepared by Joseph Passonneau & Partners ; drawn by Vitaly Gevorkian and David Akopian.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, DC : Joseph Passonneau and Partners, [1996] NOTES Axonometric aerial view of central area bounded by 30th St. N.W., P St. N.W.-N.E., 3rd St. N.E.-S.E., M St. S.E.-S.W., and Boundary Channel S.W. Shows all buildings including individual row houses, roadways, walkways, parklands, open spaces, and individual trees.

Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia : ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC / engrav'd by Sam'l Hill, Boston ; in order to execute this plan, Mr. Ellicott drew a true meridional line .... Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Boston : s.n., 1792] NOTES Shows block numbers and proposed government buildings.

Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of t[he] United States : projected agreeable to the direction of the President of the United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress passed the sixteenth day of July, MDCCXC, "establishing the permanent seat on the bank of the Potowmac" : [Washington D.C.] / by Peter Charles L'Enfant.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1887]