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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: Budgen, GR, crown over fleur-de-lis. Includes text and notes. LC copies variously soiled, torn, annotated in lead pencil, trimmed, edged with cloth stripping, and mounted on cloth backing. LC copies 1 and 3 have annotated notes on verso, in pencil of the city canal by F.C. de Krafft dated September 9, 1831. Phillips. Washington 1278 4 copies Vault DCP

Date
1792
Mapmaker / publisher
Ellicott, Andrew; Hill, Samuel; De Krafft, F. C
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
6,060 × 5,027 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; De Krafft, F. C. 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_88694166.jpg

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