19th Century History Society and Culture Washington, DC United States
19th Century History Society and Culture Washington, DC United States
19th Century
Washington, DC, history in the 19th century. Excludes Civil War history, which is placed under the category Civil War.
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 - Series of articles on Washington in the 1800s: the early years of the new capital, the city's fall to the British in 1814, the building of the C&O Canal, the development of Anacostia, Daniel Sickles' murder of Philip Barton Key near the White House, t
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- Directory of residents and businesses, including a history of the city and a visitor's guidebook. Full text (384 pages) A volume in the Making of America series of electronic reprints.
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- 37 paintings, drawings and photographs of Washington, DC, before 1850, selected from the collections of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress Website.
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- Description of the city and of the Federal government in 1869. Full text (512 pages) A volume in the Making of America series of electronic reprints.
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- Guidebook to the city, description of the Federal government, and account of the Credit Mobilier corruption scandal. Full text (518 pages) A volume in the Making of America series of electronic reprints.
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- Visitor's guidebook to the city as it was in 1876. Full text (95 pages) A volume in the Making of America series of electronic reprints.
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- Memoirs of Mrs. Virginia Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866. Full text. A volume in Documenting the American South, a series of electronic reprints.
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