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Still Image
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Physical Dimensions
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800 x 666px
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Title
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Detail, National Capital
Description
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This detail of Adolph Sachse's stylized bird's-eye view of Washington highlights the section of the National Mall west of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/59">US Capitol</a> on present-day 6th Street. The National Mall was still parkland, a series of gardens, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/372">experimental plots</a>, and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/261">natural landscapes</a>. Ten years earlier, the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/166">Baltimore and Potomac Railway lines</a> visible in this illustration were constructed through its center. Passengers boarded at the station where the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/427">National Gallery of Art</a> stands today, and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/346">freight cars loaded from sheds</a> among the trees of the Mall.
Creator
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Adolph Sachse
Source
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Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/item/75693178">View original</a>.
Publisher
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Balti[more] A. Sachse & Co.
Date
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1884
Coverage
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1860-1889
commerce & trade
design & monuments
neighborhood
work & play
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Event
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Original Format
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Lithograph
Physical Dimensions
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800 x 595px
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18810702
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Assassination of President James A. Garfield
Description
An account of the resource
On July 2, 1881, a deranged <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/410">Charles Guiteau</a> shot <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/111">President James A. Garfield</a> at the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/42">Baltimore and Potomac Railway Station</a>. Guiteau was an unsuccessful lawyer, evangelist, and insurance salesman, who thought that the President owed him a government job. Garfield died from complications from the wound on September 19. Pennsylvania Railroad Company placed a plaque and a star on the location of the assassination. However the public often complained that they disliked the reminder of the crime every time they entered the waiting room, and the company removed the commemorative tablet and star in 1897. Today, Garfield's is the only unmarked presidential assassination.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003671706/">View original</a>.
Coverage
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1860-1889
Date
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7/2/1881
neighborhood
politics & protest
presidents
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Printed in Dian Olson Belanger, "Railroad in the Park: Washington's Baltimore Potomac Station," Washington History, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1990.
Still Image
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Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Train Sheds
Description
An account of the resource
The <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/42">Baltimore and Potomac Railroad</a>, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/166">crossed the National Mall</a> between 1870 and 1907. Sheds for waiting trains and empty freight cars extended into the parklands of the National Mall. As the population grew and railroad traffic increased, the Pennsylvania Railroad battled to extend its buildings and tracks onto the Mall and into the neighborhood. Many believed the railroad was in the best interests of business and commercial growth of the city. Others felt the railroad in the Mall contradicted <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/168">President George Washington's original purpose</a> to create a Mall as a central parkland and cultural center.
Source
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Library of Congress.
Date
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1887
Coverage
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1860-1889
commerce & trade
neighborhood
-
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Document
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Text
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The Canal, which, according to the plan of the city, is to pass through its centre, and to connect the Potomac by the Tiber Creek with the Eastern Branch, had been some years ago commenced by the commissioners of the city and some progress made in the low grounds. The work was however useless, and had remained in that state for some years, when a company was formed for its prosecution and completion.<br /><br />On Wednesday the 2d of May the operations of the company were begun. Invitations were given to the President of the U.S. and to the principal officers of government and of the city to attend the ceremony of opening the ground. About 2 o'clock, a numerous concourse of the citizens having assembled, the President of the U. States and his family arrived on the spot previously determined upon, near the Jersey Avenue. A Marque was pitched and refreshments provided. The line of the canal having been marked out by Mr. Latrobe, the engineer, the President of the U. S. was accompanied to the ground by the President and Directors of the company, and having received the spade from the hands of Mr. Caldwell, president of the company, he turned up the first sod—success to the undertaking was then drank amidst the acclamations of all present, and a sod having been dug by the President of the company, and the Mayor of the city, Mr. James Cochran, the undertaker of the work, followed with his plough, drawn by six stout horses, and cut a furrow ten inches in depth and eighteen in width, with a force rapidity that astonished all present. The work proceeded and a numerous concourse of citizens remained on the spot the whole of the rest of the day. Refreshments were provided in abundance, and a degree of cheerfulness and hilarity prevailed which has never been exceeded on any similar occasion.
Original Format
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newspaper
Event Type
Planning and Design
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18100504
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Title
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Washington Canal Groundbreaking
Description
An account of the resource
On May 2, 1810, Washington officials and citizens flocked to the groundbreaking for the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/41">Washington Canal</a>, which would connect the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/424">Potomac River to the Eastern Branch, also called the Anacostia River</a>. Although the canal had been part of the original 1791 plan for the city, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/253">it had never been built</a>. In 1809, Congress chartered a new company specifically to complete the Canal. The <em>National Intelligencer</em>, one of the first newspapers in Washington, reported on the festivities for the groundbreaking of the canal, which people hoped would promote business in the city.
Date
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5/4/1810
Coverage
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1800-1829
Source
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<em>National Intelligencer</em> (Washington, DC).
commerce & trade
neighborhood
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Construction of Treasury Building, Washington, D.C. With oxen in foreground on south side
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96524469/
Date
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5/4/1860
Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
Physical Description
Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall.
The building is five stories high and covers five acres of ground. There is a statue of Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury, located on the south, patio facing the Mall. On the north patio is a statue of Albert Gallatin, fourth Secretary of the Treasury and the person who served in that position for the longest period, from 1801 to 1814.
Type
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Government Offices
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Treasury Department
Description
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The Treasury Department is one of the oldest government departments. It was among those established when the federal government moved to Washington in 1800. The first Treasury Department building was damaged by fire in 1801 and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/157">completely destroyed by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812</a>. A second building was destroyed by fire set by arsonists in 1833. In 1836, Congress authorized the construction of a new, fireproof building, which was finished by 1842. Additional wings to the south, north, and west were added in between 1855 and 1869, completing the building we see today.
Creator
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Robert Mills
Thomas Ustick Walter
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96524469/">View original</a>.
Date
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1800 (established)
1836 (current building construction begins)
1869 (current building construction complete)
Coverage
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1800-1829
1830-1859
1860-1889
neighborhood
work & play
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Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
Physical Description
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52 acre park just south of the White House lawn.
Type
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Gardens and Landscapes
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Title
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The White Lot
Description
An account of the resource
In 1860, the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/370">first baseball clubs</a> in Washington, DC, the Nationals and the Potomacs, played a game on the<a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/315"> field south of the White House</a>, then known as the White Lot. The field was originally open to baseball enthusiasts of all races, but became segregated in 1874. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt formalized the park, laying out four diamonds for public play. The baseball fields remained open until the 1990s.
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8e07378/">View original</a>.
Date
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June 2, 1860 (first game)
1990s (closed)
Coverage
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1860-1889
neighborhood
work & play
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Still Image
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Grounds of the Department of Agriculture
Description
An account of the resource
Even before President Abraham Lincoln officially created a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/289">Department of Agriculture</a> in 1862, the Bureau of Agriculture, part of the Patent Office, was growing crops on the National Mall, conducting research, and distributing seeds across the country. In 1865, the Department of Agriculture expanded its presence on the Mall, creating landscaped gardens and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/372">growing experimental crops</a>. By the 1930s, formal gardens surrounded its main building, as shown in this photograph.
Source
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District of Columbia Public Library. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcplcommons/3359936641/">View original.</a>
Date
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1930
Coverage
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1920-1949
1860-1889
commerce & trade
everyday life
neighborhood
work & play
-
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Document
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Event Type
Environmental Disaster
Text
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On Saturday last we published an account of the damage done to buildings and other property in this city and its vicinity by the late equinoctial storm — We not feel ourselves called on to notice much more extensive injuries done to the public and private property in this city and in Georgetown by the unprecedented rising of the water in the Potomac and in the Chesapeake and Ohio and Washington Canals on Saturday last. The water in the Washington Canal completely overflowed its banks, and at the Seventh street bridge was, at ten o'clock P.M., at least two feet higher than the embankment. Most of the cellars on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue from Seventh street to Second street were deluged with water; and the wood merchants on the margin of the canal and basin suffered considerably. In the low ground of the margin of the canal in the Fifth Ward there was an extensive sheet of water, which rendered some of the streets impassable to foot passengers.
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Washington Canal Floods
Description
An account of the resource
On Saturday, September 16, 1843, a violent storm caused the rivers feeding into the Potomac to rise dramatically. The resulting water levels were higher than anyone could remember. When the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/424">Potomac River</a> and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/41">Washington Canal </a>overflowed their banks, water flooded into the cellars and storage rooms in properties along the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/251">waterfronts in the Federal City and Georgetown</a>. It covered one of the bridges across the canal, which connected the Mall with the city, and damaged the supply of some of the local businesses. Flooding like this continued until the 1870s, when engineers brought it somewhat under control.
Source
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“Great Flood,” <em>Madisonian for the Country</em> (Washington, DC)
Date
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09/18/1843
Coverage
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1830-1859
commerce & trade
environment
neighborhood
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Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
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South B Street
Description
An account of the resource
The street now known as Independence Avenue was originally called South B Street, following the district's street-naming conventions. In 1934, Congress voted to rename the street Independence Avenue, three years after it had renamed North B Street as Constitution Avenue.
Date
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1934 (renamed)
Coverage
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1920-1949
Source
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David Rumsey Map Collection. <a href="http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/x08h49">View original</a>.
design & monuments
ghost mall
neighborhood
-
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Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
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North B Street
Description
An account of the resource
The street which is now known as Constitution Avenue was originally called North B Street, following the District's street naming system. For much of the 1800s, there was no road, but instead was the site of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/41">City Canal</a>. When the canal was covered over and paved, the street was named B. The street was renamed Constitution Avenue in 1931, following improvements to the road.
Date
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1931 (renamed)
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1860-1889
1920-1949
Source
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David Rumsey Map Collection. <a href="http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/x08h49">View original</a>.
design & monuments
ghost mall
neighborhood