ILLUSTRATIONS
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President Roosevelt Frontispiece
Bird’s-eye View of Washington, Looking East from the Monument Between 4 and 5
Bird’s-eye View of Washington, Looking Down the Potomac from the Monument Between 8 and 9
The Capitol Between 12 and 13
Plan of the Principal Floor of the Capitol 15
Brumidi Frieze in Rotunda 22
Brumidi Frieze in Rotunda 23
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation 27
Group I Between 32 and 33
Statuary Hall
“Westward Ho!”
Washington Declining Overtures from Cornwallis
The Senate Chamber
Some Prominent Senators
The House of Representatives
Some Prominent Representatives
The Rotunda Bronze Door
The Mace 41
The Speaker’s Room 42
viSeating Plan of the Supreme Court Chamber 54
Group II Between 80 and 81
Justices of the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Room
The Treasury Building
The Old Bureau of Engraving and Printing
The New Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Gallaudet College for the Deaf
The Smithsonian Institution
The National Museum
Macerating $10,000,000 of Money 88
The Patent Office 114
Group III Between 128 and 129
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Congressional Library
Grand Stairway of the Congressional Library
The Rotunda (Reading-room) of the Congressional Library
The Pension Office
The State, War, and Navy Departments
The German Embassy
The British Embassy
The French Embassy
The Russian Embassy
One of the Bronze Doors of the Congressional Library 133
The Declaration of Independence 148
viiFish Commission Building 163
Mrs. Roosevelt 166
Group IV Between 176 and 177
The President and Cabinet
New Entrance to the White House
New Wing of the White House
South Front of the White House
North Front of the White House
New Grand Corridor—White House
New State Dining-room—White House
Mount Vernon—From South Lawn
Tomb of Washington—Mount Vernon
Home of General Lee
Monument to the Unknown Dead, Arlington National Cemetery
The Washington Monument
Charlotte Corday 181
WASHINGTON
ITS SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS
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