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TITLE:
Washington Monument, Fifteenth Street between Independence & Constituti, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
CALL NUMBER:
HAER DC,WASH,2-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 1 (24 x 36 in.)
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
NOTE:
Survey number HAER DC-5
Significance: The Washington Monument is significant as the nations foremost memorial to her first president, George Washington, as a major example of 19th century Egyptian Revival architecture, and as a notable accomplishment in structural engineering for its period. It and its landscaped grounds are literally central to the monumental core of the nation's capital...
SUBJECTS:
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--District of Columbia--Washington
OTHER TITLE:
Washington Monument
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.dc0968
CONTROL #:
DC0968
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