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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. Facsim. of the Samuel Hill engraving of 1792. Original version: Boston: s.n., 1792. Map no. and price do not appear in upper margin. Includes text and notes. LC copies variously soiled, fold-lined, missing edge sections, and mounted on cloth backing. Copy 3 annotated in ink in upper margin: No. 3043 Price 30 cts. DCP 3 copies

Date
1792
Mapmaker / publisher
Ellicott, Andrew; Hill, Samuel; U.S. Coast And Geodetic Survey
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
7,133 × 5,718 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; U.S. Coast And Geodetic Survey. 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_90685777.jpg

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