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Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia - ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government

Shows block numbers and proposed government buildings. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also covers Georgetown. Includes text, notes, and coat-of-arms. Soiled, mounted on cloth backing, edged with artificial leather stripping, partially hand col., and annotated in ink: The squares coloured Red and these from which Morris & Nicholson were excluded a right of selection. Hamburgh. Phillips. Washington, L279 Vault DCP

Date
1792
Mapmaker / publisher
Ellicott, Andrew; Thackara & Vallance
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
8,759 × 6,275 pixels

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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.

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"Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia - ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government" (1792). Ellicott, Andrew; Thackara & Vallance. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_of_the_city_of_Washington_in_the_territory_of_Columbia_-_ceded_by_the_states_of_Virginia_and_Maryland_to_the_United_States_of_America,_and_by_them_established_as_the_seat_of_their_government,_LOC_88694160.jpg

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