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TITLE:  Capture and burning of Washington by the British, in 1814

CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in E179.D48 [General Collections]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-117176 (b&w film copy neg.)
LC-USZ6-2164 (b&w film copy neg.)

SUMMARY:  Burning of the U.S. Capitol by the British.

MEDIUM:  1 print : wood engraving

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1876]

NOTES:

Illus. in: Our first century: ... / by Richard Miller Devens. Springfield, Mass. : C.A. Nichols & Co., 1876, p. 247.

Inaccurate rendering of U.S. Capitol; there was no center building or pediment in 1814.

Architect of the Capitol Collection.

Reference copies in LOTs 4386-25 and 4413-H.

SUBJECTS:

United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1810-1820.
United States--History--War of 1812--Destruction & pillage--British.

FORMAT:

Book illustrations 1870-1880.
Wood engravings 1870-1880.

DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c17176 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17176
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3d02164 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d02164

CONTROL #:  96519729

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