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Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital (National Park Service source book series #4; Washintgton, GPO, 1946), ed. by Saul Kussiel Padover, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (multiple formats at archive.org)
Thomas Jefferson and the national capital : containing notes and correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallet, Thornton, Latrobe, the commissioners, and others, relating to the founding, surveying, planning, designing, constructing, and administering of the city of Washington, 1783-1818, with plans and illustrations ([Washington, D.C.] : United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, [1946], 1946), by Thomas Jefferson, Saul Kussiel Padover, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and George Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Papers relating to the city of Washington. Printed for the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia. (Government Printing Office, 1900), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Washington (D.C.) -- Charters

The charter of the city of Washington : being the act of incorporation, and the acts supplementary to and amendatory of, and in continuation of the same, passed by the Congress of the United States (John T. Towers, printer, 1848), by Washington (D.C.) (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: City planning -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs

Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital : record group 42, inventory no. 16 (National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), by United States. Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital and Mary-Jane M. Dowd (page images at HathiTrust)

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Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital : record group 42, inventory no. 16 (National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), by United States. Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital and Mary-Jane M. Dowd (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Psychiatric hospitals -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources -- Catalogs

Preliminary inventory of the records of St. Elizabeths Hospital : record group 418 (National Archives & Records Service, General Services Administration, 1981), by United States National Archives and Records Service, Dorothy S. Provine, and D.C.) Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Washington (D.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs

Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital : record group 42, inventory no. 16 (National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), by United States. Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital and Mary-Jane M. Dowd (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources

Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865 (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1934), by Jane Grey Swisshelm, ed. by Arthur J. Larsen (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

Filed under: Washington (D.C.) -- Public works -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography

Preliminary inventory of the records of the Commission of Fine Arts : record group 66 (National Archives & Records Service, General Services Administration, 1976), by United States National Archives and Records Service, Dorothy S. Provine, United States National Archives, and United States. Commission of Fine Arts (page images at HathiTrust)

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Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman Sees Them (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co. (et al.), 1873), by Mary Clemmer (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman Sees Them (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co. (et al.), 1874), by Mary Clemmer (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Washington and its Romance (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Thomas Nelson Page, illust. by Walter O. Reese and Emily Shaw Reese (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington, Outside and Inside: A Picture and a Narrative of the Origin, Growth, Excellencies, Abuses, Beauties, and Personages of Our Governing City (1873), by George Alfred Townsend (HTML and page images at LOC)
Eunice Tripler: Some Notes of Her Personal Recollections (New York: The Grafton Press, 1910), by Eunice Tripler, ed. by Louis A. Arthur
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Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. ([Columbia Historical Society], 1895), by D.C.) Columbia Historical Society (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington, city and capital. Federal writers' project, Works progress administration ... Washington, 1937. (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1937), by Federal Writers' Project and Douglas Pappas (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Washington. : Life and scenes in the National capital, as a woman sees them (A. D. Worthington & co., 1874), by Mary Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them. (A. D. Worthington & co. [etc.,etc.], 1873), by Mary Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
A manual on the origin and development of Washington (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1939), by H. Paul Caemmerer (page images at HathiTrust)
Recollections of war times; reminiscences of men and events in Washington, 1860-1865. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by A. G. Riddle (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington past and present : a guide to the Nation's capital (United States Capitol Historical Society, 1983), by Donald R. Kennon, Richard Striner, and United States Capitol Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Growing with Washington, the story of our first hundred years, 1848-1948. ([Washington, 1948), by Washington Gas Light Company, Albert W. Atwood, and Robert R. Hershman (page images at HathiTrust)
The removal of the seat of government to the District of Columbia : two papers read before the District of Columbia Historical Society (Govt. Print. Off., 1900), by W. B. Bryan and Samuel C. Busey (page images at HathiTrust)
Origin and government of the District of Columbia. (Gov't. Print. Off., 1909), by William Tindall and United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia (page images at HathiTrust)
Greenleaf and Law in the federal city (Press of the W. F. Roberts, 1901), by Allen C. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington, the national capital (U.S. G.P.O., 1932), by H. Paul Caemmerer (page images at HathiTrust)
Celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia. (Govt. Print. Off., 1901), by Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia, Samuel C. Busey, Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, Gaillard Hunt, W. B. Bryan, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, William Van Zandt Cox, and United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing (page images at HathiTrust)
Our capital on the Potomac (The Century Co., 1924), by Helen Nicolay and Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The story of Washington, the national capital (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889), by Charles Burr Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
Walks about Washington (Little, Brown, 1915), by Francis E. Leupp and Lester George Hornby (page images at HathiTrust)
The uncivil war : Washington during the reconstruction, 1865-1878 (Twayne Publ., 1958), by Whyte,James Huntington, 1909- (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the national capital from its foundation through the period of the adoption of the organic act (The Macmillan company, 1914), by W. B. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington, past and present; a history (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1930), by John Clagett Proctor, Frank P. Black, and E. Melvin Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington : the capital city and its part in the history of the nation (Lippincott, 1902), by Rufus Rockwell Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis (A. W. Mills, 1886), by Benjamin Perley Poore (page images at HathiTrust)
The Corps of Engineers in the District of Columbia. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of History, 2004), by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Office of History (page images at HathiTrust)
Centennial history of the city of Washington, D. C. With full outline of the natural advantages, accounts of the Indian tribes, selection of the site, founding of the city ... to the present time. (Pub. for H. W. Crew by the United brethren publishing house, 1892), by Harvey W. Crew, John Wooldridge, and William Bensing Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Washington: or, Inside life and scenes in our national capital as a woman sees them ... (The Hartford Publishing Company ;, 1882), by Mary Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington, the capital city, and its part in the history of the nation (J. B. Lippincott co., 1901), by Rufus Rockwell Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Washington holiday (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1955), by Eleanor Early (page images at HathiTrust)
Uncle Sam's government at Washington (Dodd, Mead and company, 1933), by George L. Knapp (page images at HathiTrust)
Events at the national capital and the campaign of 1876. A complete history of the foundation and growth of our groverning city, a description of the public buildings and manner of living there, a searching exposure of the various jobs and scandals which have excited public indignation, full biographies of Hayes, Wheeler, Tilden, and Hendricks, besides various political statistics. (J. Betts & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1876), by George Alfred Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
Planning of Washington, D.C. by Pierre C. de L'Enfant : Tardy act of justice : Monument proposed to the man who planned the city of Washington, D.C. (Printed privately, 1775) (page images at HathiTrust)
Yesterdays in Washington. (Commonwealth Company, 1915), by Mary S. Lockwood (page images at HathiTrust)
Origin and government of the District of Columbia (Govt. Print. Off., 1907), by William Tindall (page images at HathiTrust)
Origin and government of the District of Columbia. (Gov't print. off., 1908), by William Tindall and United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia (page images at HathiTrust)
Centennial history of the city of Washington, D.C. with full outline of the natural advantages, accounts of the Indian tribes, selection of the site, founding of the city, pioneer life, municipal, military, mercantile, manufacturing, and transportation interests, the press, schools, churches, societies, public buildings, etc., to the present time. (Published for H. W. Crew by the United Brethren Pub. House, W.J. Shuey, publisher, 1892), by H. W. Crew, J. Wooldridge, and William B. Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of public characters drawn from the living and the dead : with notices of other matters (E. Bliss, 1830), by Ignatius Loyola Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
The seat of government of the United States. A review of the discussions ... on the site and plans of the federal city; with a sketch of its present position and prospects; also, remarks on monumental structures and the Smithsonian Institution. Read (in part) before the New York and Maryland Historical Societies. (R. Farnham, 1854), by Viator (page images at HathiTrust)
Early days of Washington (The Neale Company, 1899), by Sally Somervell Mackall (page images at HathiTrust)
Standard history of the city of Washington from a study of the original sources (H. W. Crew & co., 1914), by William Tindall (page images at HathiTrust)
The story of Washington, the national capital (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by Charles Burr Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
The Olivia letters; being some history of Washington city for forty years as told by the letters of a newspaper correspondent (The Neale publishing company, 1906), by Emily Edson Briggs and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A souvenir of the American Capital - picturesque Washington: Pen and pencil sketches ... (Providence, 1888), by Joseph West Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
Reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis (Hubbard Brothers, 1886), by Benjamin Perley Poore (page images at HathiTrust)
The District of Columbia (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1950), by Martha Ensign Strait Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington, D.C., a guide to the nation's capital (Hastings House, 1942), by D.C.) Writers' Program (Washington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Eunice Tripler : some notes of her personal recollections. (Grafton Press, 1910), by Eunice Tripler and Louis A. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the District of Columbia. Address delivered by the Hon. Henry B. McFarland ... (The Washington board of trade, 1900), by Henry B. F. Macfarland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A history of the city of Washington, its men and institutions (Copyright by The Washington Post Co., 1903), by Washington Post Company and Allan B. Slauson (page images at HathiTrust)
What you most want to know : a complete guide and directory, prepared for the members of the Grand Army of the Republic ... visiting the Washington National Encampment (J.C. Parker, 1892), by Charles H. Ingram and John P. Church (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington, outside and inside. A picture and a narrative of the origin, growth, excellencies, abuses, beauties, and personages of our governing city. (J. Betts & Co.;, 1873), by George Alfred Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
Personal recollections of early Washington and a sketch of the life of Captain William Easby. A paper read before the Association of the oldest inhabitants of the District of Columbia, June 4, 1913 (Beresford, pr., 1913), by Wilhelmine M. Easby Smith and Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington, old and new (Press of Washington Print. Co., 1914), by Barry Bulkley (page images at HathiTrust)
The presidents and the national capital (Press of the New Era Print. Co., 1917), by Theodore W. Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
The establishment and government of the District of Columbia (Govt. print. off., 1901), by William Tindall (page images at HathiTrust)
The seat of government of the United States. (R. Farnham, 1854), by Viator (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices of other matters. (Published by E. Bliss, 1830), by Samuel L. Knapp (page images at HathiTrust)
Celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia. (Govt. print. off., 1901), by Committee on the centennial celebration of the establishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia, Samuel C. Busey, Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, Gaillard Hunt, W. B. Bryan, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, William Van Zandt Cox, and United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington, old and new (Press of W. F. Roberts co.], 1913), by Barry Bulkley (page images at HathiTrust)
Standard history of the city of Washington from a study of the original sources (H. W. Crew & co., 1914), by William Tindall (page images at HathiTrust)
The founding of Washington city ([Printed by J. Murphy & co.], 1881), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford (page images at HathiTrust)
The city of Washington : its origin and administration (N. Murray, publication agent, Johns Hopkins university, 1885), by John Addison Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Washington : life and scenes in the national capital as a woman sees them (Queen City Publishing Company, 1874), by Mary Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. as described by the earliest travellers: Henry Wansey, Francis Baily, Isaac Weld, Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, John Davis of Salisbury. (Printed by Judd & Detweiler, inc., 1909), by Alfred J. Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)
The national capital. Newspaper articles and speeches concerning the city of Washington (B. S. Adams, printer and publisher, 1893), by Theodore W. Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
Origin and government of the District of Columbia (Govt. print. off., 1903), by William Tindall (page images at HathiTrust)
Walks about Washington (Little, Brown, and company, 1921), by Francis E. Leupp and Lester G. Hornby (page images at HathiTrust)
Boundary markers of the nation's capital : a proposal for their preservation and protection (National Capital Planning Commission :, 1976), by United States. National Capital Planning Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Pictures of the city of Washington in the past. (W. Ballantyne & sons, 1898), by Samuel C. Busey (page images at HathiTrust)
The seat of government of the United States. A review of the discussions, in Congress and elsewhere, on the site and plans of the federal city; with a sketch of its present position and prospects ... Also, a notice of the Smithsonian Institution. (Press of Hunt's merchants' magazine, 1848), by Viator (page images at HathiTrust)
[The White City] (Chicago World Book Co., 1893), by John Moses and Paul Selby (page images at HathiTrust)
Letter from John H. Crane to Norton P. Chipman. ([s.n.], 1873), by John H. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the District of Columbia. (The National capital centennial committee, 1900), by Henry B. F. Macfarland (page images at HathiTrust)
Origin and government of the District of Columbia. (Washington, 1912), by William Tindall (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them ... (A.D. Worthington & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1874), by Mary Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government (Jas. Betts & Co., 1877), by George Alfred Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
... The comung of the white man, and the foulding of the national capital (The Academy, 1900), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford (page images at HathiTrust)
10 years in Washington (Hartford, Conn., A.D. Worthington & Co. ; Cincinnati, O. ; St. Louis, Mo. : A.G. Nettleton & Co., 1875., 1875), by Mary Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them. (A.D. Worthington, 1876), by Mary Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Picturesque Washington : pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol, the Senate chamber, and House of Representatives, the White House, and the government departments : together with artistic views at Mount Vernon, a map of the city of Washington, and diagrams of the halls of Congress (J.A. & R.A. Reid, 1887), by Joseph West Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
Governance of the nation's capital : a summary history of the forms and powers of local government for the District of Columbia, 1790 to 1973 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by Joan Talbert Thornell and United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia (page images at HathiTrust)
Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis. (AMS Press, 1971), by Benjamin Perley Poore (page images at HathiTrust)
Your Uncle Sam in Washington. (Monumental Press, 1948), by Myrtle M. Cheney Murdock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Personalities in Washington architecture (1937), by Charles Moore and D.C.) Columbia Historical Society (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington : Its early days and early ways (Scribner, 1928), by Mary Murray Kochka (page images at HathiTrust)
Washington City : its founding and development (s.n.], 1917), by Frederick L. Fishback and D.C.) Columbia Historical Society (Washington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rambling through Washington, an account of old and new landmarks in our capital city (Print. by the Washington Journal, 1932), by Theodore Dodge Gatchel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Washington, the capital city, and its part in the history of the nation (J.B. Lippincott co., 1902), by Rufus Rockwell Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them (A.D. Worthington & Co. ;, 1877), by Mary Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
A manual on the origin and development of Washington, by H. Paul Caemmerer (Gutenberg ebook)
Ten Years in Washington: or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield, by Mary Clemmer, contrib. by J. L. Shipley (Gutenberg ebook)
The Olivia Letters: Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent, by Emily Edson Briggs (Gutenberg ebook)
Walks about Washington, by Francis E. Leupp, illust. by Lester G. Hornby (Gutenberg ebook)
Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis, v. 1-2, by Benjamin Perley Poore (Gutenberg ebook)

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