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Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of t[he] United States : projected agreeable to the direction of the President of the United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress passed the sixteenth day of July, MDCCXC, "establishing the permanent seat on the bank of the Potowmac" : [Washington D.C.] / by Peter Charles L'Enfant.
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Washington : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1887]
NOTES
Photocopy of a facsim. of the 1791 L'Enfant plan.
Original facsim. extensively annotated in ink by Lawrence Martin, chief, Division of Maps, Library of Congress.
Includes text, indexed "References," and photocopied newspaper article titled "New city of Washington," from the Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia, Jan. 4, 1792.
At lower right: N.I.
LC copy torn, fold-lined, taped, and accompanied by another photocopy at a smaller scale.
Scale [ca. 1:21,000].
SUBJECTS
Washington (D.C.)--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.
United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
RELATED NAMES
Martin, Lawrence, 1880-1955.
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
MEDIUM
1 map : photocopy ; 51 x 54 cm., on sheet 57 x 77 cm.
CALL NUMBER
G3850 1791 .L46 1887
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
DIGITAL ID
g3850 ct000512 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3850.ct000512
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