Entrée principale:

Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia, issuing body.

Titre et auteur:

Celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia / compiled by William V. Cox under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing.

Publication:

Washington : Government Printing Office, 1901.

Description:

343 pages : plates, 2 portrait on 1 plate, folded plans, facsimiles (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
At head of title: 1800-1900.
"The arrangements for the celebration were made, by authority of an act of Congress, under the direction of a joint executive committee, made up of representatives of the two houses of Congress, of the governors of the states and territories, and of citizens of the District of Columbia"--Page 15.
Printed according to act of Congress approved March 3, 1901. Public, 136.
Appendix: 1. The coming of the white man, and the founding of the national capital. By A.R. Spofford. -- 2. Removal of the government to the District of Columbia in 1800. By A.R. Spofford. -- 3. Removal of the seat of government to Washington. By W.B. Bryan. -- 4. The centennial of the permanent seat of the government of the United States. By S.C. Busey. -- 5. Locating the capital. By Gaillard Hunt.
6. Sketch of the various forms of local government in the District of Columbia: with list of Washington city officials [1802-1898]. By W.B. Bryan. -- 7. Plans for treatment of that portion of the District of Columbia south of Pennsylvania Avenue and north of B Street S.W., and for a connection between Potomac and Zoological Parks. -- 8. Books, pamphlets, periodicals, maps and original plans of the "Centennial exhibition" in the Division of Prints, Library of Congress. Washington. Comp. by A.J. Parsons. -- 9. Beautifying the national capital. By W.V. Cox.
Also issued online.

Ressources:
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Sujet:

Anniversaries
Politics and government
Washington (D.C.) History 19th century.
Washington (D.C.) Centennial celebrations, etc.
United States Politics and government 19th century.
Washington (D.C.) Histoire 19e siècle.
États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 19e siècle.
United States
Washington (D.C.)

Classification/genre:

History

Vedettes secondaires:

Cox, William Van Zandt, 1852-1923, compiler.
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908, contributor.
Bryan, W. B. (Wilhelmus Bogart), 1854-1938, contributor.
Hunt, Gaillard, 1862-1924, contributor.
Parsons, Arthur Jeffrey, 1856-1915, contributor.
Busey, Samuel C. (Samuel Clagett), 1828-1901, contributor.
United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing, contributor.

National capital centennial, 1900
Centennial celebration of the establishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 111554
Cote: 0010056; ID:85-B18212
Statut: Disponible