Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government

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100 1 ‡aTownsend, George Alfred, ‡d1841-1914
245 1 0 ‡aHistoric sketches at Washington : ‡bcontaining a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government / ‡cBy the Author of "The New World Compared with the Old" [George Alfred Townsend].
260 ‡aHartford, Conn. : ‡bJas. Betts & Co., ‡c1877 [c1876]
300 ‡a[i]-xiv [15]-456 p., 47 plates : ‡bill. frontis. ; ‡c20.5 cm.
505 0 ‡aIntroductory -- How Washington City Came to Be -- The Job of Planning the Federal City -- The Architects of the Capitol and their Feuds -- The Lobby and its Gentry -- A Running History of Government Scandals -- Society and the City from the Madisonian to the Emancipation Periods -- The Romance of the Capitol Building -- Some of the Organic Evils of Our Congressional System -- Style, Extravagance, and Matrimony at the Seat of Government -- Domestic History of the White House -- Some of the Bureaux of Our Government Visited -- A Picture of Mt. Vernon in 1789 -- Curiosities of the Great Bureaux of the Government -- Some Queer People in Washington -- The Newspaper Press and its Relations with the Government -- A Series of Open Air Excursions Around Washington to Get Rid of Politics -- Chief Justice Chase as a Representative Statesman -- Chiefly Antiquarian and Descriptive -- A Record of Historical Events in the District of Columbia -- Social Sketches of the Old and New in Washington -- Jobbery Coeval with Government -- The Whiskey Frauds -- Our National Disgrace -- Talk With the Oldest Citizen in Washington -- The Supreme Court and Local Justice at Washington -- Some of the Ablest Men of Affairs of the Period -- The Civil Versus the Congressional Services -- Various Political Statistics.
538 ‡aMode of access: Internet.
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776 0 8 ‡iOnline version: ‡aTownsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914. ‡tHistoric sketches at Washington. ‡dHartford, Conn. : Jas. Betts & Co., 1877 [©1876] ‡w(OCoLC)893928369
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