L'enfant Map 6, Washington DC – Vintage Map Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique map of L'enfant Map 6, Washington DC brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
L'enfant Map 6, Washington DC
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Washington in the early 1790s was a federal city on paper and in surveyors' stakes more than in brick. In 1791 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French-born engineer who had served in the Continental Army, drew a plan for the new capital on land ceded by Maryland and Virginia along the Potomac. His scheme set broad avenues named for the states across a grid of numbered and lettered streets, with sites marked for the Capitol and the President's House. The work proved difficult. Landowners resisted giving up their property, funds were thin, and L'Enfant's quarrels with the commissioners led to his dismissal in early 1792. Andrew Ellicott carried the design forward, and the government did not move into the unfinished city until 1800.
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Washington DC |
| Original scan | 13,764 × 8,754 px · prints to 46 × 29 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L'enfant Map 6 |
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