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[View of Washington looking down Pennsylvania Ave. toward unfinished Capitol. National Hotel on left, no. 1]
Summary
Drawing shows a woman and child exiting the telegraph office, and the National Hotel, at Pennsylvania and 6th Street, NW, as carriages and people move up and down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. The view is toward the Capitol, with its incomplete dome.
See DRWG/US - Meyer, no. 3 (B size for another version of this view.
Tranfer; Map Division.
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Date
01/01/1860
Contributors
Meyer, A., artist
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.
