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Photograph
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Title
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Construction of the Washington Monument resumes
Description
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In 1876 after sitting uncompleted for almost twenty years Congress passed a joint resolution taking charge of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/196">completion of the monument</a>. Taking control of the land and monument back from the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/148">Washington National Monument Society</a> who had run out of funds shortly after construction began in 1854. In this image <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/502">workers</a> can be see fortifying the base of the monument. Now controlled by the federal government, the design of the monument became the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/455">more simple Egyptian style obelisk</a> which appears today.
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Internal Archive, National Park Service.
Date
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1870s
Coverage
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1860-1889
building the mall
design & monuments