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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. Watermarks: I Taylor, GR, crown over fleur-de-lis. Includes text and notes. LC copies torn, annotated in ink on recto, annotated in ink and pencil on verso to give partial cadastral maps of selected blocks, and mounted on transparent cloth backing. Phillips. Washington 1278 2 copies Vault DCP

Date
1792
Mapmaker / publisher
Ellicott, Andrew; Hill, Samuel
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
18,288 × 6,912 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; Hill, Samuel. 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_88694163-1.jpg

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