View of Washington – Antique Wall Map
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with View of Washington, an antique map rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. 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.
View of Washington
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This view captures Washington as it stood in 1852, when the federal city was still far from the grand plan Pierre L'Enfant had sketched decades earlier. The Washington Monument was still rising, and work on it would soon stall for lack of funds, while the Capitol was in the middle of a major expansion. Popular bird's-eye views like this one let viewers take in a whole growing city at a glance, with its streets, public buildings, and the Potomac laid out below. Notice how much open ground and scattered development still surrounds the central core.
| Created / published | 1852 |
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| Original scan | 9,136 × 6,528 px · prints to 30 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | DC Washington 1852 |
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