Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia

Cover Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia
Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia
United States. Congress. Joint Committee On Printing

At head of title: 1800-1900 On back of cover: National Capital Centennial. 1900 Folded map affixed between plates 32 and 34: Working plan showing approximate grades and drains for the treatment of that section of the District of Columbia ... (50 x 83 cm., folded to 28 cm.) Folded maps affixed to pages in rear of vol.: Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of government of the United States ... (53 x 79 cm., folded to 28 cm.); Plan of the city of Washington in the Territory of Columbia

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, ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland ... (47 x 53 cm., folded to 27 cm.); Defenses of Washington : extract of military map of N.E. Virginia (46 x 36 cm., folded to 27 cm.); Map of the District of Columbia, 1901 (57 x 73 cm., folded to 27 cm.) "The arrangements for the celebration were made, by authority of an act of Congress, under the direction of a joint executive committee, made up of representatives of the two houses of Congress, of the governors of the states and territories, and of citizens of the District of Columbia."--p. 15 Printed according to act of Congress approved March 3, 1901. Public, 136 Appendix: 1. The coming of the white man, and the founding of the national capital. By A.R. Spofford.--2. Removal of the government to the District of Columbia in 1800. By A.R. Spofford.--3. Removal of the seat of government to Washington. By W.B. Bryan.--4. The centennial of the permanent seat of the government of the United States. By S.C. Busey.--5. Locating the capital. By Gaillard Hunt.--6. Sketch of the various forms of local government in the District of Columbia: with list of Washington city officials [1802-1898]. By W.B. Bryan.--7. Plans for treatment of that portion of the District of Columbia south of Pennsylvania Avenue and north of B Street S.W., and for a connection between Potomac and Zoological Parks.--8. Books, pamphlets, periodicals, maps and original plans of the "Centennial exhibition" in the Division of Prints, Library of Congress. Washington. Comp. by A.J. Parsons.--9. Beautifying the national capital. By W.V. Cox Bound in cloth, with gold illustration and lettering on front cover and gold lettering on spine; holograph (handwritten) inscription in ink on flyleaf: Charles F. Roberts 18

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