Goose Creek - (Washington D.C.)
Covers Tiber Creek estuary in the area now occupied by the Mall. Shows proposed Washington D.C. street alignments. Pen-and-ink and brown wash. Originally drawn on 2 sheets. Watermark: J Whatman (with fleur-de-lis under crown). Oriented with north to the bottom. Stained, missing section at lower right corner, and mounted on cloth backing. Phillips. Washington, 943 Vault DCP
- Date
- 1790
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Henry
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 8,791 × 6,495 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Goose Creek - (Washington D.C.)" (1790). Henry. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goose_Creek_-_(Washington_D.C.)_LOC_88693174.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 13204.
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