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040 _cSMCHS
100 _aEllicott, Andrew, 1754-1820, cartographer; Thornton, William, 1759-1828, cartographer
245 _aPlan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia, ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of government after the year MDCCC
_b(Reproduction)
260 _aPhiladelphia, PA
_c1798?
300 _a2 sheets - positive & negative
_c17" x 24"
500 _aNARA description at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3850.ct008648
520 _a- Shows proposed streets, block numbers, and proposed government buildings; also shows proposed "University" area (which does not appear on the original 1792 edition). - Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. - Also covers Georgetown. - Black-ink script added at right-hand edge: Presented to M'r Volney the 9th of february [thus] 1798 by W'm Thornton commissioner to the public Buildings. A second inked script describing the colors indicating house types (dated "February 1798") appears below the first script. - Annotated in red hand-coloration to show locations of brick houses and in blue to show locations of frame houses. - Watermark on left side: Bud[unclear]n; on right side: "GB" [under fleur-de-lis]. - LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined (8 panels). - Includes text, notes, and Washington coat-of-arms. - Annotated in ink script on verso: Federal-City. - Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. - DCP
856 _uhttps://tudorhall.stmaryshistory.org/maps/map-050.pdf
_yView map here
942 _cMAP
999 _c4053
_d4053