- Description
- Image of two copies of the same image on one sheet of views of prominent buildings and locales in Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas and images related to United States President George Washington consisting of a top centered head-and-shoulders portrait of Washington in an oval frame decorated with flags and military items and two vignettes of Mount Vernon and the Tomb of Washington; a lower central image of an elevated landscape view of the United States Capitol building with the cityscape in the background, directly above a vignette of the Washington Monument and two scenes of Washington as a General during the American Revolution and Columbia, the goddess of Liberty, with flags and two cherubs; with three central columns containing twenty-six small vignettes of the front facades of buildings in Washington, D.C., including the United States General Post Office, United States Treasury, the Observatory, the White House, the Military Asylum, the Columbia Armory, the War Department, the Willard Hotel, the United States Navy Yard, the United States Arsenal, Matthew Church, the City Hall, Trinity Church, Georgetown College, an elevated view of Georgetown, the National Hotel, the Lunatic Asylum, the United States Patent Office, the Smithsonian Institute, a building dedicated to the Fine Arts, interior views of the crowded chambers of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and three statues including a statue of Andrew Jackson and a statute of Washington by Clark Mills.
- Date
- approximately 1861
- Call number
- priJLC_POL_001519
- Provenance
- Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Associated people
- Baillie, James S., (active 1838-1855.)
- Baker, Joseph E., (approximately 1837-1914.)
- Ball, W. (approximately 1747-1815.)
- Barralet, John James, (1826-1901.)
- Bates, J. H. (1837-1913.)
- Beard, James Carter, (-1874.)
- Bergner, George, (approximately 1828-1872 or 1873.)
- Bigot, Alphonse, (approximately 1823-1896.)
- Bisbee, Eugene S. (approximately 1791-)
- Bouclet, Francis. (1810-1896.)
- Brady, Mathew B., (1821-1893.)
- Brightly, Henry A., (approximately 1828-)
- Brown, Mannevillette Elihu Dearing, (1811-1893.)
- Bruns, Wm. (1819-1896.)
- Buttre, John Chester, (1813-)
- Cameron, John, (1802-1848.)
- Carusi, Samuel. (1843-1895.)
- Casilear, John William, (1824-)
- Crosby, Charles H., (1811-1889.)
- D'Avignon, Francis, (active 1870-1880.)
- Dunlap, T. (1789-1851.)
- Earle, J. S. (1801-1846.)
- Endicott, George, (active 1867-1868.)
- Feusier, A. (1823-1907.)
- Frizzell, S. S. (1820-)
- Geddes, William F. (1833-1921.)
- Grebner, Charles. (1832-1932.)
- Haehnlen, Jacob, (1829-1895)
- Hageboeck, August. (1839-1890.)
- Hanks, S. W. (1802-1864.)
- Hart, Chas. (1818-1878.)
- Henderson, John N. (1809-1864.)
- Hill, Isaac, (1822-1893.)
- Inman, Henry, (-1850.)
- Kelly, Thos., (1808-1897.)
- Kramer, Peter, (1761-1817.)
- Kuchel, Charles Conrad, (approximately 1805-1881.)
- Kurz, Louis, (active approximately 1860-1870.)
- Lewis, Charles E. (1755-1828.)
- Maurer, Louis, (1783-1872.)
- Momberger, William, (1803-1889.)
- Morgan, Matthew Somerville,
- Morris, George Pope,
- Nahl, Charles Christian,
- Needham, Dwight.
- Newsam, Albert,
- Perry, Geo. T.
- Porter, James
- Pratt, W. H.
- Robinson, Henry R.,
- Sartain, John,
- Savage, Edward,
- Sinclair, Thomas S.,
- Smith, John,
- Smith, William,
- Stuart, Gilbert,
- Sully, Thomas,
- Wagner, T. S.
- Weir, Robert Walter,
- Wiest, D.
- Associated organizations
- A. Hoen & Co.
- A.L. Bancroft & Company.
- Albert Type Printing Co.
- Bingham & Dodd.
- Britton & Rey.
- Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)
- Childs & Inman.
- Currier & Ives.
- Drew, Bisbee & Spear.
- Eckstein & Porr.
- Edward Weber & Co.
- Elliot & White.
- Endicott & Swett.
- F. Myers & Co.
- Frank Leslie's Publishing House.
- H.C. Tunison (Firm)
- Hatch & Co.
- Hatch Lith. Co.
- J.H. Bufford's Lith.
- J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith.
- J.W. Sheehy & Co.
- Kellogg & Comstock.
- Kimmel & Forster.
- Kurz & Allison.
- Lehman & Duval Lithrs.
- Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann.
- McLoughlin Bros.
- Meichel & Plumly.
- N. Currier (Firm)
- New England Lithographic Co.
- New York Lithographing and Engraving Co.
- P.J. Hitchins and Comp.
- P.S. Duval & Son.
- Sowle & Shaw.
- Strobridge & Co. Lith.
- T. Sinclair's Lith.
- W.H. Morgan & Son.
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