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• Call Number: JK1651.N71 A5 1874 ESL 59 With: Annual report of the New Capitol Commissioners, office of the New Capitol Commissioner, Albany, January 15, 1870 ... for the year 1869. [Albany? : s.n., 1870] -- Report on building stones / by James Hall. Albany : J. Munsell, 1868 -- Reports of Captain M.C. Meigs, accompanying the annual report of the secretary of war, for the year 1859. Washington : George W. Bowman, printer, 1860 -- Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the heating and ventilating of the Capitol extension, the Post Office Department, &c. [Washington : s.n., 1860] -- In the Senate of the United States ... Mr. Buckalew submitted the following report. [Washington : s.n., 1865] -- Warming and ventilating the Capitol, letter from the secretary of the interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 4th instant, transmitting a report of T.U. Walter, relative to warming and ventilating both houses of Congress. [Washington : s.n., 1866] -- Ventilation of the hall of the House of Representatives ... Mr. Taber, from the Select Committee on the Ventilation of the Hall made the following report. [Washington : s.n., 1869] -- Letter from the superintendent of the Capitol extension to the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, in relation to the dome and porticos of the Capitol. [Washington : s.n., 1860] -- Report of the architect on the United States Capitol extension and the new dome, accompanying the annual report of the secretary of the interior for the year 1864. Washington : G.P.O., 1864 -- Copy "of Report on the ventilation, warming, and lighting of the houses of Parliament / by Dr. Percy. [London : s.n., 1866] -- Report of John Page, Esq., chief engineer, public works, on the public buildings at Ottawa. Ottawa : Printed by Hunter, Rose, & Co. 1868 -- Description of plans for the new public buildings to be erected on Independence Square, in the city of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia : s.n., 1869] -- The perfection of artificial heat. New York : Crichton & Co., steam book and job printers, 1869. Bound together subsequent to publication.
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