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Bank of Columbia, Georgetown, D.C. – Antique Wall Art

Bank of Columbia, Georgetown, D.C., 1839 — historic drawing
Bank of Columbia, Georgetown, D.C., 1839. Historic drawing from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Bank of Columbia, Georgetown, D.C.

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The Bank of Columbia, shown here in a watercolor dated 1839, stands in Georgetown, a port town that had housed the institution since the early republic. In the late 1830s Georgetown was still a separate municipality, a busy shipping point on the Potomac for tobacco and grain, and it would not be absorbed into Washington until 1871. The record also tags the scene with horseback riding, a reminder that saddle travel was a common sight on town streets before railroads and streetcars reshaped city life. The picture offers a useful glimpse of everyday commercial life in the capital's older neighbor.

Created / published1839
Medium1 drawing : watercolor.
GenreWatercolors American 1830-1840.
SubjectsBanks--1830-1840. Horseback riding--1830-1840.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,443 × 1,152 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219274

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