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              <text>Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia  [detail]</text>
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              <text>Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division. &lt;a href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3850+ct000299))"&gt;View original&lt;/a&gt;.</text>
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