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Herd of bison, near Lake Jessie / Stanley del. ; Sarony, Major & Knapp...

Print shows a large herd of bison on a prairie. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 47th & 49th Parallels. General Report Plate X. Illus. from: U.S. Pacific railroad explorations and surveys, 47th & 49th Parallels. ... More

[U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. East elevation, low dome]

Inscription on recto: East Elevation of the Capitol. Inscription on verso: Modified plan after Hallett's discharge Thornton's East Elevation. Drawing no. 27. History of the United States Capitol / Glenn Brown. ... More

[U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. East elevation, low dome]

Inscription on recto: East Elevation of the Capitol. Inscription on verso: Modified plan after Hallett's discharge Thornton's East Elevation. Drawing no. 27. History of the United States Capitol / Glenn Brown. ... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Cellar story, south wing]

Inscriptions on recto: "For Wm Lenthall, Clerk of the Works." "Plan of the Cellar Story of the South Wing of the Capitol at Washington. BHenry Latrobe Furveyor of the public buildings April 1803." "The 3 st... More

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...

Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...

Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...

Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...

Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...

Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...

Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...

Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...

Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More

Panoramic view of Washington, D.C., Panoramic Photograph

Five-part panorama shows the mall area of Washington, D.C., and surrounding buildings, from the Smithsonian Institution Building (now the "Castle"). Left section shows Washington Monument under construction in ... More

Panoramic view of Washington, D.C., Panoramic Photograph

Five-part panorama shows the mall area of Washington, D.C., and surrounding buildings, from the Smithsonian Institution Building (now the "Castle"). Left section shows Washington Monument under construction in ... More

Architectural drawing for a monument for Vice President George Clinton...

Preliminary drawing showing monument as perspective projection; rendering. UNIT title devised. Identity of person for whom monument was made, location, and date from information in P&P Curatorial Files. Referen... More

[Crowd at the inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes, on the east front g...

Stereograph by Brady's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capito... More

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Architectural sculpture, alle...

Reference copy available in LOT 4249. Forms part of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., east front elevation]

Purchase; 1972; (DLC/PP-1972:R01.4). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washingt... More

The City of Washington birds-eye view from the Potomac-looking north /...

Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C. from above the Potomac River, looking north; prominent features listed below image.

[Botanical Gardens ; Washington Monument ; Smithsonian ; Wet day on th...

Includes the United States Capitol. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0033). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Around the Capitol," Harper's weekly, 34... More

[Washington, D.C. The Old Capitol Prison, 1st and A Streets NE]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States ... More

[Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller administering the oath of office to ...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Washington, U.S. - From the Capitol. Washington DC sterescope card, 19...

Stereograph showing an elevated view looking down Pennsylvania Ave. from the U.S. Capitol. Stamped Stereo by London Stereoscopic Co. No. 117.

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Principle floor plan, vestibu...

Inscriptions on recto: "Plan of the PRINCIPAL FLOOR of the CAPITOL U.S. 1817." "Those parts which are colored light red denote the walls remaining, and carried up since the conflagration of 1814. Those of a... More

North Carolina Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: This avenue remains faithful to its design on the L'Enfant and Ellicott city plans. The reservations on the avenue are largely intact since their official recognition in 1894, and several contain ... More

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memo...

Significance: As the final link in the chain of monuments which start at the Capitol building, the Arlington Memorial Bridge connects the Mall in Washington, DC with Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. De... More

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memo...

Significance: As the final link in the chain of monuments which start at the Capitol building, the Arlington Memorial Bridge connects the Mall in Washington, DC with Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. De... More

White House Grounds & Ellipse, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

See also HALS DC-14 for related documentation. Significance: Reservation No. 1 encompasses the majority of the land set out by Pierre L'Enfant for the President's Grounds. Second only to the U.S. Capitol Ground... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, variant ...

Inscription on recto: 4 ft. to an inch. Date: 1818-1820 (William Allen). Reference copy in LOT 4249 (R).

[Letter from Isaac McCoy to his mother, Nancy McCoy, from Louisville, ...

Handwritten letter from Private Isaac McCoy of Co. A, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, on pictorial lettersheet showing the U.S. Capitol building.

James K. Polk - eleventh president of the United States

James K. Polk, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, with the U.S. Capitol seen through window in the background. Conningham no. 2615. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Res... More

Lincoln Park, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: L'Enfant designated a large park one mile east of the U.S. Capitol at the convergence of four avenues. Set aside as a large rectangle on the Ellicott Plan, it has been landscaped as a park since t... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. West front, partial elevation...

Inscription on recto: "Study for a west front." Verso obscured by lining; mounted on paper on linen. Reference copy available in LOT 4249. Forms part of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).

John Thomson Mason House, 3425 Prospect Street, Northwest, Washington,...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the hoe of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

John Thomson Mason House, 3425 Prospect Street, Northwest, Washington,...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the hoe of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

[United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.). East front elevation, archi...

Referred to as "The Fancy Piece" by Hallet. Exhibited: Unbuilt Washington, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2011-May 2012. Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor's Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, ... More

[United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.). East front elevation, archi...

Referred to as "The Fancy Piece" by Hallet. Exhibited: Unbuilt Washington, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2011-May 2012. Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor's Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, ... More

The Lexington of 1861 - A painting of a man laying on the ground in fr...

Massachusetts Volunteers fighting in streets of Baltimore on march to defense of the U.S. Capitol. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3754

View of Washington City and Georgetown / lith. by E. Weber & Co., Balt...

Composite of view of Washington from the portico of the Capitol surrounded by twenty other views of government buildings, monuments, Navy Yard, and aqueduct near Georgetown.

Presidents of the United States / A. Feusier, del. & lith.

A large, patriotic print probably issued around the time of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration. Columbia stands before the U.S. Capitol, holding a shield and a staff with a liberty cap. On her brow she wears a laur... More

Presidents of the United States / A. Feusier, del. & lith.

A large, patriotic print probably issued around the time of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration. Columbia stands before the U.S. Capitol, holding a shield and a staff with a liberty cap. On her brow she wears a laur... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. West approach with propylaea,...

Inscriptions on recto: "Sketch of the [...] West approach of the Capitol U.S. Washington April 10.h 1811 BHLatrobe" "Yard & Garden" "Descent in 3 Landings." Verso obscured by lining; mounted on paper. Refer... More

[United States Capitol ("Federal Capitol"), Washington, D.C. Cross sec...

Presentation drawing showing scheme "E" for cross section of the U.S. Capitol. Inscription on recto: E-1 A ground plan accompanied this which Doc. Thornton sent for together with the plan in pencil. Inscripti... More

Aerial view with a focus on the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Interior elevation & reflecte...

Inscription on recto: "Believed to be George Bridport, unknown subject." Inscription on verso (on linen lining): "NOTE IN HANDWRITING OF JOHN H.B. LATROBE [,] T.F. HANDEN." Mounted on paper on linen. Reference... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Interior elevation & reflecte...

Inscription on recto: "Believed to be George Bridport, unknown subject." Inscription on verso (on linen lining): "NOTE IN HANDWRITING OF JOHN H.B. LATROBE [,] T.F. HANDEN." Mounted on paper on linen. Reference... More

United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Print shows the east front of the U.S. Capitol as seen from the south-east, with pedestrians and horsedrawn carriages on plaza in front. This print is probably a later reprint of no. 593. Conningham no. 5227a.... More

Aerial view of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aerial view of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Wet block in Congress meets to plan for wet legislation. Rep. John Ph...

Twenty-four men posed standing on steps of the U.S. Capitol. National Photo Company Collection.

800 N. Capitol Street, NW (Commercial Building), Washington, District ...

Significance: The HABS Office was located in this ten-story office building from ca. 1992 until summer of 2002. The building was designed by Hartman-Cox Architects and completed in 1991; its design was intended... More

Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].

Print shows an elaborate martial allegory of the United States. Liberty or Columbia, wearing a Phrygian cap and armed with sword, shield, and American flag, is enthroned in the clouds. The words "E Pluribus Unu... More

Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].

Print shows an elaborate martial allegory of the United States. Liberty or Columbia, wearing a Phrygian cap and armed with sword, shield, and American flag, is enthroned in the clouds. The words "E Pluribus Unu... More

U.S. Capitol, Old Supreme Court Chamber, Intersection of North, South,...

Significance: Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and is located on the ground floor of the original north wing of the U.S. Capitol. The space occupied what had been the lower part of the two-story Senate Chambe... More

U.S. Capitol, Old Supreme Court Chamber, Intersection of North, South,...

Significance: Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and is located on the ground floor of the original north wing of the U.S. Capitol. The space occupied what had been the lower part of the two-story Senate Chambe... More

U.S. Capitol, Old Supreme Court Chamber, Intersection of North, South,...

Significance: Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and is located on the ground floor of the original north wing of the U.S. Capitol. The space occupied what had been the lower part of the two-story Senate Chambe... More

The Capitol, Washington, D.C. - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Roosevelt entering Capitol, Washington DC

H57303 U.S. Copyright Office Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Capitol, Old Senate Chamber, Intersection of North, South, & East...

Significance: It is located in the original north wing of the U.S. Capitol. Benjamin H. Latrobe designed the semi-domed, semi-circular space, which was originally constructed in 1809-1810, and reconstructed in ... More

U.S. Capitol, Old Senate Chamber, Intersection of North, South, & East...

Significance: It is located in the original north wing of the U.S. Capitol. Benjamin H. Latrobe designed the semi-domed, semi-circular space, which was originally constructed in 1809-1810, and reconstructed in ... More