Collection Highlights
Contraband Camp -- Harper's Ferry, VA
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.065.815.7
Medium:
Stereograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Plan of the City of Washington
Object Number:
1960.75
Date:
ca. 1800
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 3/4 x 24 in. ( 55.2 x 61 cm )
Marks:
printed: all over: "PLAN/ of the CITY of/ Washington/ in the Terrritory of Columbia, ceded by the States of / VIRGINIA and MARYLAND/ to the/ UNITED States of America,/ and by them established as the/ SEAT of their GOVERNMENT/ after the Year/ MDCCC./ Bread
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with the plan of Washington, D.C., printed in maroon on white ground; portrait of George Washington in the upper left corner, and winged muses in upper right corner beside an American shield armorial; decorative border with stars.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
