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FIFTY GLIMPSES

OF

WASHINGTON

AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD.

REPRODUCED FROM RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS.

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK: RAND, McNALLY & CO., PUBLISHERS, 1896.

WOODWARD & LOTHROP, 10th, 11th, AND F STREETS, WASHINGTON, D. C.

Copyright, 1895, by Rand, McNally & Co.

[Illustration: THE MALL View looking Southwest from near the Department of Agriculture.

BUREAU OF ENGRAVING WASHINGTON MONUMENT. POTOMAC RIVER.] AND PRINTING.

[Illustration: THE CAPITOL East Front.]

[Illustration: THE CAPITOL West Front.]

[Illustration: VIEW LOOKING WEST FROM THE CAPITOL.

BOTANICAL GARDEN. PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.]

[Illustration: BRONZE STATUE OF JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Southwestern Entrance to Capitol Grounds. By J. Q. A. WARD.]

[Illustration: CAPITOL VISTA FROM SOLDIERS' HOME.]

[Illustration: THE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Capitol.]

[Illustration: THE SENATE CHAMBER Capitol.]

[Illustration: THE MARBLE ROOM OR SENATE LOBBY Capitol.]

[Illustration: THE ROGERS BRONZE DOOR Capitol.]

[Illustration: THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT Fifteenth Street, N. W., from Pennsylvania Avenue to G Street.]

[Illustration: THE BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING Northeast corner B and Fourteenth Streets, S. W.]

[Illustration: PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Looking East from Treasury Department.]

[Illustration: DIPLOMATIC ROOM, DEPARTMENT OF STATE.]

[Illustration: DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, WAR, AND NAVY Seventeenth Street, between New York Avenue and G Street, N. W.]

[Illustration: THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Seventh, Eighth, E, and F Streets, N. W.]

[Illustration: THE PENSION OFFICE Judiciary Square, Fourth, Fifth, and G Streets, N. W.]

[Illustration: THE BARTHOLDI FOUNTAIN Botanical Garden.]

[Illustration: THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

The Mall, near B and Tenth Streets, S. W.]

[Illustration: VIEW FROM BASE OF THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.

DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, THE WHITE TREASURY ALBAUGH'S WAR, AND NAVY. HOUSE. DEPARTMENT. OPERA HOUSE.]

[Illustration: THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT Height, 555 1/3 feet.]

[Illustration: THE WHITE HOUSE North Front.]

[Illustration: THE WHITE HOUSE South Front.]

[Illustration: THE EAST ROOM White House.]

[Illustration: THE RED ROOM White House.]

[Illustration: THE STATE DINING ROOM White House.]

[Illustration: THE BLUE ROOM White House.]

[Illustration: THE MALL View looking East from Department of Agriculture.]

[Illustration: THE CHINESE LEGATION Corner Fourteenth Street and Yale Avenue, N. W.]

[Illustration: THOMAS CIRCLE View looking North from junction Vermont Avenue and Fourteenth Street, N. W.]

[Illustration: EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF MAJ. GEN. GEORGE H. THOMAS Thomas Circle.

J. Q. A. WARD.]

[Illustration: BRONZE STATUE ADMIRAL DAVID G. FARRAGUT

Farragut Square, intersection Connecticut Avenue and I Street, N. W.

By MRS. VINNIE REAM HOXIE.]

[Illustration: EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT.

Scott Circle, intersection Sixteenth Street, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Avenues, N. W.

By H. K. BROWN.]

[Illustration: THE LAFAYETTE MEMORIAL.

Lafayette Square, Executive Avenue and Fifteenth St., N. W.

By FALQUIER and MERCIE.]

[Illustration: EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Washington Circle, intersection Pennsylvania and New Hampshire Avenues, N. W.

By CLARK MILLS.]

[Illustration: BRONZE STATUE OF ADMIRAL SAMUEL F. DUPONT.

Dupont Circle, intersection of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut Avenues, N. W.

By LAUNT THOMPSON.]

[Illustration: THE SOLDIERS' HOME.]

[Illustration: U. S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY Extension of Massachusetts Avenue, near Rockville Pike... Continue reading book >>




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