One mile from Washington City Hall – Historic Reproduction
![One mile from Washington City Hall, [1839 or 1840] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a8/a886007e10ad-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: One mile from Washington City Hall, preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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One mile from Washington City Hall
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Its title places the scene one mile from Washington's City Hall, so the artist chose the working countryside on the capital's edge rather than its public buildings. In the late 1830s much of the District of Columbia remained farmland, and the city was far less built up than its plans suggested. Wash drawings, built up from thin, diluted layers of ink or paint, were a quick and popular way to record such rural scenes. The record does not name the maker, so the sheet reads as a modest document of farm life beside the seat of government.
| Created / published | [1839 or 1840] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : wash. |
| Genre | Wash drawings American 1830-1840. |
| Subjects | Farms--1830-1840. Farmhouses--1830-1840.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,448 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217132 |
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