Book/Printed Material Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them
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Image 1 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
- Date: 1873
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Image 2 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... V C\ o,. ♦•V-,- .0 V f T o, cv o *T *V 5^ C-- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 3 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... !nL- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 4 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 5 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/tenyearsinwashin01clem- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 6 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 7 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 8 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 9 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... TEN YEARS IN WASHINGTON. Life and Scenes IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, AS A WOMAN SEES THEM. By MARY CLEMMER AMES, Author of Eirene, or a Woman s Right, Memorials of Alice and...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
- Date: 1873
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Image 10 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873, by A. D. WORTHINGTON CO., In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. Case, Lockwood Brain-ard, hun tkks...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 11 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness, in gathering the materials of this book, to Mr. A. R. Spofford, Librarian of Con- gress to Col. F. Howe to the Chiefs of the several...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 12 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... TO Mrs. HAMILTON FISH, TO Mrs. ROSCOE CONKLING, OF NEW YORK, TWO LADIES, WHO, IN THE WORLD, ARE YET ABOVE IT, WHO USE IT AS NOT ABUSING IT, WHO EMBELLISH LIFE WITH...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 13 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 14 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... VIEW OF THE CAPITOL. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Engraved Expressly for this Work. PAGE. Fine Steel-Plate Portrait of the Author. Engraved by George E. Perine, [Frontispiece] View of the Capitol, Mkn of Mark...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 15 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VII PAGE. 13. Burnt to Ashes The End op Uncle Sam s Greenbacks, 326 The above is a graphic sketch of the destruction of the worn and defaced currency...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 16 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. PA0E The Young Surveyor s Dream Humboldt s View of Washington— A Vision of the Fu- ture Capital The United States Government on Wheels— Ambitious...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 17 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... CONTENTS. IX PAGE. Discussed— Generous Proposition of George Washington— Faith Under Difficulties- Transplanting an Entire College— An Old Proposition in a New Shape— What Wash- ington Society Lacks— The Lombardy Poplars Refuse...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 18 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... X CONTENTS. PAGE. tor Burr— Statue of Baker— His Last Speech Prophetic— The Glory of a Patriotic Ex- ample—The Lesson which Posterity Learns— Horatio Stone, the Sculptor— Washing- ton s Statue at...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 19 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... CONTENTS. XI CHAPTER XVII. THE CAPITOL MORNING SIGHTS AND SCENES. PAOE The Capitol in Spring A Magic Change— More Beautiful than Ancient Rome Arri- val of Visitors— A New Race— Billing and...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 20 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... 192 X ii CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXI. WIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS. vtl A Social Queen— The Most Popular Person in the United States Dolly Madison s Reign— The Slow Days of Old— A...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 21 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... CONTENTS. Xlil PAGE. Claims for a Lady s Fand— Reigning at the White House— Doing Double Duty— Visit of the Prince of Wales— Marriage of Harriet Lane— As Wife and Mother— Mrs....- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 22 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... XIV CONTEXTS. PAGE. Festivities— Devoted to Art Scene in the Avenue —A Lively Time— The Mighty Drum-Major West Point Warriors Criticised Faultlessly Ridiculous Pitilessly Dressed Taken for a Nigger Magnificent Display The...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 23 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... CONTENTS. XV PAGE. are Used up A Close Inspection Defying Imitation The Geometric Lathe Tracing Lines of .Beauty for More than Forty Years, 303 CHAPTER XXXI. THE WORKERS IN THE TREASURY HOW...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 24 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... XVI CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXXIV. WOMAN S WORK IN THE DEPARTMENTS WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY DO IT. PAQK Women Experts in the Treasury General Spinner s Opinion A Woman s Logic...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 25 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... CONTENTS. XVll PAGE. plaints and Misdoings— Benjamin Franklin s Appointment He goes into Debt One Hundred and Twenty Years Ago Franklin Performs Wonderful Works His Ideas of Speed Between Boston and Philadelphia...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 26 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... XV111 CONTENTS. PAGE. known Men— Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence— Washington s Com- mission—Model of an Extraordinary Boat— Abraham Lincoln as an Inventor— The Hat Worn on the Fatal Night—...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 27 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... CONTENTS. XIX PAGE. dier-General Albert J. Meyer— Hie Life and Career— He Introduces System and Order Foreseeing the Approach of Storms— The Fate of the Metis Quicker than the Storm The First...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 28 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... XX CONTENTS. PAGE. Object— Changes Made by the Regents— Ex- Officio Members of the Institution The Power Behind the Throne The Secretary The Smithsonian Reservation— The Smithsonian Building Its Style of Architecture...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 29 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... Ten Tears in Washington. CHAPTER I. FEOM THE VERY BEGINNING. The Young Surveyor s Dream Humboldt s View of W» ashington A Vision of the Future Capital The United States Government on...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 30 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... 22 TEN TEARS IN WASHINGTON. Gazing from the green promontory of Camp Hill, what was the sight of land and water upon which the youthful surveyor looked down It was fair to...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 31 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... A GOVERNMENT ON WHEELS. 23 privation, cold, hunger, bloodshed, revolution, patient victory at last, all these were to be endured, outlived, before the beautiful Capital of his future was reached. Did the...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 32 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... 24 TEN TEARS IN WASHINGTON town, with power to buy soil and to enter into contracts for the building of a Federal House, President s house, house for Secretaries, etc. Notwithstanding the...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 33 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... HOW THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT IN CONGKESS. 25 erecting the necessary public buildings for the accommo- dation of Congress, at Georgetown, on the Potomac River, as soon as the soil and jurisdiction...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 34 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... 26 TEN YEARS IN WAS KING TON. bly of Maryland would advance two-fifths of a like sum. Whereupon the Assembly of Virginia immediately voted to cede the necessary soil, and to provide...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 35 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... VIRGINIA INJURED. 27 Grace and a place called Wright s Ferry, on the Susque- hanna Baltimore on the Patapsco, and Connogocheague on the Potomac. Mr. Smith proclaimed Baltimore, and the fact that...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 36 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... 28 TEN YEAES IN WASHINGTON. The bill passed the House by a vote of thirty-one to nineteen. The Senate amended it by striking out Sus- quehanna, and inserting a clause making the...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 37 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... DINNER TABLE LEGISLATION. Z9 our own time, over a well-laid dinner table, and a bot- tle of rare old wine. Jefferson was then Secretary of State, and Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 38 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... 60 TEN YEAKS IN WASHINGTON. informed myself of the system of finance adopted that if its rejection endangered a dissolution of our Un- ion at this incipient stage, I should deem that...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 39 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ...- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
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Image 40 of Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a ... MEN OF MARK, IN WASHINGTON.- Contributor: Clemmer, Mary
- Date: 1873