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![Union fire company of Washington City ... Officers & members for 1839 ... [Washington] Gideon, printer, Ninth Street, near Pennsylvania Avenue.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4MzkvMDEvMDEvdW5pb24tZmlyZS1jb21wYW55LW9mLXdhc2hpbmd0b24tY2l0eS1vZmZpY2Vycy1hbmQtbWVtYmVycy1mb3ItMTgzOS13YXNoaW5ndG9uLTEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/320/533/jpg "Union fire company of Washington City ... Officers & members for 1839 ... [Washington] Gideon, printer, Ninth Street, near Pennsylvania Avenue.")
![Union fire company of Washington City ... Officers & members for 1839 ... [Washington] Gideon, printer, Ninth Street, near Pennsylvania Avenue.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4MzkvMDEvMDEvdW5pb24tZmlyZS1jb21wYW55LW9mLXdhc2hpbmd0b24tY2l0eS1vZmZpY2Vycy1hbmQtbWVtYmVycy1mb3ItMTgzOS13YXNoaW5ndG9uLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/66/webp "Union fire company of Washington City ... Officers & members for 1839 ... [Washington] Gideon, printer, Ninth Street, near Pennsylvania Avenue.")
![To the voters of Washington ... [Washington, D. C.] J. N. Davis, printer, S. W. corner Pa. and 12th street. 1846.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTgvdG8tdGhlLXZvdGVycy1vZi13YXNoaW5ndG9uLXdhc2hpbmd0b24tZC1jLWotbi1kYXZpcy1wcmludGVyLXMtdy1jb3JuZXItcGEtYWI3NjZhLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/49/webp "To the voters of Washington ... [Washington, D. C.] J. N. Davis, printer, S. W. corner Pa. and 12th street. 1846.")
![Headquarters of Genr. Scott [... 616 Seventeenth Street, Washington, D.C.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTgvMDEvMDEvaGVhZHF1YXJ0ZXJzLW9mLWdlbnItc2NvdHQtNjE2LXNldmVudGVlbnRoLXN0cmVldC13YXNoaW5ndG9uLWRjLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "Headquarters of Genr. Scott [... 616 Seventeenth Street, Washington, D.C.]")
![1857 Pennsylvania central railroad, in direct connection with the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago railroad for Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul. [etc.] ... New York. Booth & Norton, Steam Job printers. August 1857.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NTcvMDEvMDEvMTg1Ny1wZW5uc3lsdmFuaWEtY2VudHJhbC1yYWlscm9hZC1pbi1kaXJlY3QtY29ubmVjdGlvbi13aXRoLXRoZS1waXR0c2J1cmdoLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/84/webp "1857 Pennsylvania central railroad, in direct connection with the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago railroad for Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul. [etc.] ... New York. Booth & Norton, Steam Job printers. August 1857.")
![The Union Academy. Z. Richards, A. M. Principal and proprietor, Washington, D. C. This institution will be opened in a new and commodious building ... Course of study ... [Washington, 1851].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NTEvMDEvMDEvdGhlLXVuaW9uLWFjYWRlbXktei1yaWNoYXJkcy1hLW0tcHJpbmNpcGFsLWFuZC1wcm9wcmlldG9yLXdhc2hpbmd0b24tZC1jLXRoaXMtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/58/webp "The Union Academy. Z. Richards, A. M. Principal and proprietor, Washington, D. C. This institution will be opened in a new and commodious building ... Course of study ... [Washington, 1851].")
