Hand-drawn manuscript plan of Washington City streets and parks – Vintage Photo Print
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This historic image of Hand-drawn manuscript plan of Washington City streets and parks brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Hand-drawn manuscript plan of Washington City streets and parks
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The street grid on this manuscript plan of Washington City sets it apart from the printed maps of the capital that circulated later. Drawn by hand, it shows the radiating avenues laid over a rectangular grid, the scheme that Pierre Charles L'Enfant sketched for the new federal capital in 1791 and that the surveyors of the period worked to put on the ground. Plans like this one were used to visualize proposed parks, squares and building sites before the city was built out, which makes them valuable to anyone tracing how the capital's streets were first imagined.
| Original scan | 5,995 × 4,903 px · prints to 20 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | ct001112 |
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