Manuscript plan of the west end of the Mall, Washington – Antique Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Manuscript plan of the west end of the Mall, Washington. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Manuscript plan of the west end of the Mall, Washington
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The Mall's west end is the stretch this manuscript plan documents, a part of Washington that was still taking shape when the drawing was made. Plans like this one were central to the city's early development, since the L'Enfant layout placed a broad open axis between the Capitol and the Potomac, and surveyors and planners recorded its grounds in careful detail. Hand-drawn sheets of this kind show how the land was laid out, which paths and plots were intended, and how the open space was meant to work as a civic setting. Looking at the lines and lettering today, you can trace how the ideal of a grand national landscape was translated into survey work on the ground.
| Original scan | 5,611 × 3,856 px · prints to 19 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | ct001111 |
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