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Photographs of a block survey of buildings in downtown Washington, D.C.

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Images show buildings in a block survey of downtown Washington, D.C., encompassing an area bounded by D Street and I Street Northwest between 1st Street and 15th Street. Also two photographs of E Street Northwest between 20th Street and 21st Street, and photographs of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building.

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01/01/1994
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, donor
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States ,  38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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Photographs of a block survey of buildings in downtown Washington, D.C.

[Second floor, south corridor. Gilt tablet with quotation that begins "Beholding the bright countenance of truth ...." Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[South Corridor, Second floor. Mural depicting one of the three graces, Euphrosyne (Beauty), by Frank Weston Benson. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

Architectural details at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, located in the block bounded by Lafayette, Camp, Magazine and Capdeville Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana

[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. Niche showing carved figure head. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

Main Street Area Survey, Troubadour Theatre, North Main Street, Lexington, Lexington, Virginia

Fresco painting "Explorer Block" located in rotunda, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Christian Liljenquist poses at the grave of a soldier ("Nath'l Shoup, Sgt. Pennsylvania") who died during the Civil War. An ambrotype photo of Shoup is on top of the gravestone. Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia

Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a topographical survey drawn in perspective A.D. 1875,

Southeast Area Survey, 101 & 122-124 Carroll Street (House), 1008 Potomac Street (House), Canal Street at Independence Avenue (Row House), 1016-1018 Potomac Street (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

[Exterior view. Bronze doors at the main entrance with female figures representing Imagination (woman holding a lyre) and Memory (woman holding a helmet), by Olin L. Warner. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Lobby to Main Reading Room. Peace and Prosperity mural by Elihu Vedder. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

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architecture washington dc streets safety film negatives color block survey block survey buildings downtown washington downtown washington library of congress photos 1990 s cars 1990 s library of congress