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One mile from Washington City Hall – Antique Print

One mile from Washington City Hall, [1839 or 1840] — historic drawing
One mile from Washington City Hall, [1839 or 1840]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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This rare historic drawing captures One mile from Washington City Hall in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Its title places this farm one mile from Washington City Hall, a reminder of how close working countryside still lay to the center of the capital in the late 1830s. Beyond the planned avenues and the few built blocks, the District of Columbia remained largely fields, woodlots and scattered farmsteads, and this drawing captures that edge where the city gave way to the land around it. Wash drawings of the period, built up in tones of ink or watercolor rather than fine line, were often used to record buildings with a plain, documentary care. The farmhouse and its outbuildings are worth studying as a glimpse of ordinary rural life just beyond the city's core.

Created / published[1839 or 1840]
Medium1 drawing : wash.
GenreWash drawings American 1830-1840.
SubjectsFarms--1830-1840. Farmhouses--1830-1840.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,020 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117420

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