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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.

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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.

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Summary

Shows block numbers and proposed government buildings.
Facsim. of the Samuel Hill engraving of 1792.
Original version: [Boston : s.n., 1792].
Includes text and notes.
LC copies accompanied by positive and negative photocopies of another exemplar with annotations in ink. Copy 1 mounted on cloth backing. Copy 2 torn and annotated in ink in left upper margin: No. 3043, price 30 [cents].
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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Date

01/01/1792
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Contributors

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
Hill, Samuel, 1766?-1804.
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
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Library of Congress
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