Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. Vol. 33-34
Author | : Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) |
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Release | : 1932 |
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Author | : Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) |
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Release | : 1932 |
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Author | : Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) |
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Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Washington (D.C.) |
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Author | : Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Washington (D.C.) |
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Author | : United States. Commission of Fine Arts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : MARJORIE WARVELLE HARBAUGH |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 535 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Buildings |
ISBN | : 1304237869 |
Author | : Adam Costanzo |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2018-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820352861 |
The vision, controversy and political rivalries that shaped America’s capital are examined in this fascinating history of Washington, D.C. When America’s first congress declared that a national capital was to be built along the Potomac, President Washington was given complete control over its design and construction. Eager to establish a federal city worthy of a powerful and rapidly expanding empire, Washington recruited commissioners, surveyors, architects, and craftsmen. But there were many—including Thomas Jefferson—who opposed Washington’s vision for a grand American metropolis. In the fiercely partisan environment of the early republic, the construction, development, and oversight of the District of Colombia became a symbolic pawn in the contest between rival political groups. George Washington’s Washington traces the president’s original plan for the capital over the course of decades, through its formation, abandonment, and eventual revival in the Jacksonian era. It is not simply a history of the city during Washington’s life but a history of his vision for the national capital and of the local and national conflicts surrounding this vision’s acceptance and implementation.
Author | : Andrea Wulf |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0307390683 |
From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the Founding Fathers like none you've seen before. “Illuminating and engrossing.... The reader relives the first decades of the Republic ... through the words of the statesmen themselves.” —The New York Times Book Review For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation. Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.
Author | : Peter E. Palmquist |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780804740579 |
This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.
Author | : United States. National Archives and Records Service |
Publisher | : Washington, D.C. : National Archives Trust Fund Board |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
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Guide to using the resources in the National Archives for conducting geneological research.