ILLUSTRATIONS
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President Taft 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
The Mace 41
The Speaker's Room 42
Group I Between 48 and 49
Statuary Hall
"Westward Ho!"
Washington Declining Overtures from Cornwallis
The Senate Chamber
Some Prominent Senators
The House of Representatives in Session
Some Prominent Representatives
New House Office Building
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
New Municipal Building
Government Printing Office
New Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Union Station
The Smithsonian Institution
The New 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 New 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 William H. Taft 166
Group IV Between 176 and 177
The President and Cabinet
Entrance to the White House
New Wing of the White House
South Front of the White House
North Front of the White House
Grand Corridor—White House
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
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WASHINGTON
ITS SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS
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