Detail, National Capital 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. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Adolph+Sachse">Adolph Sachse</a> Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/item/75693178">View original</a>. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=45&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Balti%5Bmore%5D+A.+Sachse+%26+Co.">Balti[more] A. Sachse & Co.</a> 1884 <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1860-1889">1860-1889</a>