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Johnson's Georgetown and the City of Washington, the Capital of the United States of America – Antique Print

Johnson's Georgetown and the City of Washington, the Capital of the United States of America — historic image
Johnson's Georgetown and the City of Washington, the Capital of the United States of America. Historic image from the Washington DC collection.

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A window into the past: Johnson's Georgetown and the City of Washington, the Capital of the United States of America, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Johnson's Georgetown and the City of Washington, the Capital of the United States of America

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This piece pairs two neighboring places on a single sheet: Georgetown, the older tobacco port on the Potomac, and the planned city of Washington that was laid out beside it after the federal government moved to the District of Columbia. The title's wording, "the Capital of the United States of America," reflects how the city was still being built and how its promoters wanted it understood. Georgetown kept its own identity as a separate municipality until 1871, which makes the pairing of the two names worth noticing. Compare the street grid of the planned city with the older, irregular streets of Georgetown to see the two places side by side.

Original scan4,768 × 3,847 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
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