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Library of Congress and House Office Building
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "This view of the Library of Congress and House Office Building from Dome of the U.S. Capitol is looking southeast and give the stranger to the Capitol City, an idea of the artistic plan of the treatment, instituted by Major L'Enfant, the great French engineer, who laid out the city at the solicitation of George Washington." Postcard was never mailed.
Library of Congress (2)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "This view of the Library of Congress and House Office Building from Dome of the U.S. Capitol is looking southeast and give the stranger to the Capitol City, an idea of the artistic plan of the treatment, instituted by Major L'Enfant, the great French engineer, who laid out the city at the solicitation of George Washington." Postcard was never mailed.
Washington's Library, Mount Vernon, VA
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "In the Library on notes, not without curiosity, the titles of the books which made up the reading of the master of Mount Vernon, as soldier, statesman, and farmer; for while the books are not those actually owned by Washington, they are for the most part duplicates of such works as were here in his day. Nearly the whole of the original Washington ...