The city of Washington in 1800 1804 a colored edition of an engraving by George Isham Parkyns The view is from Virginia THISNER
A cluster of houses at the Navy Yard had been rapidly collected but between Georgetown and the Navy Yard Washington lay in almost virgin nakedness The grand avenue of Pennsylvania running from one extreme to the other had indeed been opened as had also parts of other streets in the vicinity The buildings in the city could then easily be counted Most of the area of the National Capital was then covered with bushes and undergrowth which fell off here and there into pasture grounds and commons or terminated in slashes and marshes On America's capital in 1807 from a sketch of the Life of Dr William Gunton
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The Black Boy c 1844 oil on canvas by William Windus Michael Shiner would have been about the age of this child during the War of
