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Manuscript plan of Capitol grounds with handwritten letter – Antique Print

Manuscript plan of Capitol grounds with handwritten letter — historic image
Manuscript plan of Capitol grounds with handwritten letter. Historic image from the Washington DC collection.

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A window into the past: Manuscript plan of Capitol grounds with handwritten letter, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Manuscript plan of Capitol grounds with handwritten letter

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A manuscript plan of the Capitol grounds is an unusual kind of record for this board, since most of its images show finished buildings and streets rather than the working drawings behind them. Plans like this were typically drawn by the architects and engineers who laid out the federal city in the late 18th and 19th centuries, when the Capitol's grounds were still being shaped around the building. The handwritten letter that accompanies the plan adds a second layer, as correspondence of this kind often recorded decisions about construction, landscaping, or funding. Careful readers will find that the drawing and the letter together show how public planning was carried out by hand, long before the grounds took their present form.

Original scan5,040 × 6,312 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi
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