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Filed under: Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs- The Court Circles of the Republic, or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation: Illustrating Life and Society Under Eighteen Presidents; Describing the Social Features of the Successive Administrations from Washington to Grant (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co.; et al., 1869), by E. F. Ellet, illust. by Mrs. R. E. Mack
- The Court Circles of the Republic, or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation: Illustrating Life and Society Under Eighteen Presidents; Describing the Social Features of the Successive Administrations from Washington to Grant (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Pub. Co., ca. 1869), by E. F. Ellet, illust. by Mrs. R. E. Mack (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The First Forty Years of Washington Society, Portrayed by the Family Letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard), From the Collection of Her Grandson, J. Henley Smith (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by Margaret Bayard Smith, ed. by Gaillard Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Etiquette of Social Life in Washington (Washington, DC: J. A. Wineberger, 1873), by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren
- Etiquette of Society at the National Capital (Washington: Gibson Bros., 1892), by Mary Pollok Nimmo
- Recollections of Full Years (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914), by Helen Herron Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
- Recreation and Amusement Among Negroes in Washington, D.C.: A Sociological Analysis of the Negro in an Urban Environment (Washington: Howard University Press, 1927), by William Henry Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1868), by Elizabeth Keckley
- A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Hand-book of official and social etiquette and public ceremonials at Washington. A manual of rules, precedents, and forms in vogue in official and social life at the seat of government of the United States, for the guidance and information of officials, diplomats, strangers, and residents. Also a guide for diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States in foreign countries. (Washington, 1889), by De B. Randolph Keim (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thomas Law : a biographical sketch (Press of W.F. Roberts, 1900), by Allen C. Clark and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Social life in the early republic : with numerous reproductions of portraits, miniatures, and residences (J. B. Lippincott company, 1902), by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
- The diary of Elbridge Gerry, jr. (Brentano's, 1927), by Elbridge Gerry and Claude Gernade Bowers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jeffersonian America: notes on the United States of America (Huntington Library, 1954), by Augustus John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
- Seventy-five years of White House gossip; from Washington to Lincoln (Doubleday, Page & company, 1925), by Edna Mary Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The captains and the kings. (Putnam, 1954), by Edith Helm (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Yankee Jeffersonian; selections from the diary and letters of William Lee of Massachusetts, written from 1796 to 1840. (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), by William Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
- A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66 (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904), by Virginia Clay-Clopton and Ada Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
- Taft and Roosevelt, the intimate letters of Archie Butt. (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1930), by Archibald Willingham Butt (page images at HathiTrust)
- From pinafores to politics (H. Holt and company, 1923), by Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Boudoir mirrors of Washington. (The John C. Winston Company, 1923), by Nelle M. Scanlan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The letters of Archie Butt, personal aide to President Roosevelt. (Doubleday, Page & company, 1924), by Archibald Willingham Butt and Lawrence F. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
- Centennial literary reunion at the residence of Horatio King ("School of Music" press, 1884), by Horatio King (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)
- Washington (McGraw-Hill, 1960), by Frank G. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
- As I remember; recollections of American society during the nineteenth century (D. Appleton and company, 1911), by Marian Gouverneur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Washington wife : journal of Ellen Maury Slayden from 1897-1919. (Harper & Row, 1963), by Ellen Slayden (page images at HathiTrust)
- White House profile : a social history of the White House, its occupants and its festivities (Bobbs-Merrill, 1951), by Bess Furman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The social ladder (H. Holt and company, 1924), by John King Van Rensselaer and Frederic F. Van de Water (page images at HathiTrust)
- The war-whirl in Washington (The Century co., 1918), by Frank Ward O'Malley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Social Washington (Press of B. S. Adams, 1923), by Anne Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
- Washington by-line : the personal history of a newspaperwoman (Knopf, 1949), by Bess Furman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fashions and follies of Washington life : a play in five acts (Published by the author, 1857), by Henry Clay Preuss (page images at HathiTrust)
- Growing up on Capitol Hill : a young Washingtonian's journal, 1850-1852 (Library of Congress :, 1997), by Francis O. French, John J. McDonough, and Library of Congress (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)
- A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66 (Doubleday, Page, 1905), by Virginia Clay-Clopton and Ada Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
- Behind the scenes in Washington. Being a complete and graphic account of the Credit mobilier investigation, the congressional rings, political intrigues, workings of the lobbies, etc. ... with sketches of the leading senators, congressmen, government officials, etc., and an accurate description of the splendid public buildings of the federal capital. (Continental Publishing Company; [etc., etc., 1873), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
- National capital code of etiquette (A.N. Jenkins, 1920), by Edward S. Green (page images at HathiTrust)
- Social usages at Washington (Harper & brothers, 1906), by Florence Howe Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Memoirs and letters of Dolly Madison : wife of James Madison, president of the United States (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), by Dolley Madison and Lucia B. Cutts (page images at HathiTrust)
- Etiquette of social life in Washington (J.B. Lippincott, 1881), by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Washington confidential today (Paperback Library, 1962), by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The story of the White House (The McClure company, 1907), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66 (Wm. Heinemann, 1905), by Virginia Clay-Clopton and Ada Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reminiscences of a soldier's wife. (C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by John A. Logan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters of Mary Boardman Crowninshield, 1815-1816. (Printed at the Riverside Press, 1905), by Mary Boardman Crowninshield, Bruce Rogers, and Francis Boardman Crowninshield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Reminiscences of peace and war. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1908), by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life in Washington, and life here and there. (J. P. Lippincott, 1859), by Mary Jane Windle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Washington tapestry. (Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1946), by Olive Ewing Clapper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Hand-book of official and social etiquette and public ceremonials at Washington. (Washington, 1886), by De B. Randolph Keim (page images at HathiTrust)
- My studio window: sketches of the pageant of Washington life (Dutton, 1928), by Marietta Minnigerode Andrews (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)
- Washington broadcast (Doubleday, Doran and company, inc., 1944) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leaves from an old Washington diary, 1854-1863 (Books, distributed by Dutton, 1943), by Elizabeth Lindsay Lomax and Lindsay Lomax Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Memories (Privately printed, 1930), by Garret A Hobart (page images at HathiTrust)
- The White House; an informal history of its architecture, interiors and gardens (Dodd, Mead & company, 1937), by Ethel Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters from Washington, on the Constitution and laws; with sketches of some of the prominent public characters of the United States. Written during the winter of 1817-18. (J. Gideon, junr., 1818), by George Watterston (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Washington sketch book; a society souvenir, (Hartman & Cadick, printers, 1895), by Ida Hinman (page images at HathiTrust)
- In sight of the goddess; a tale of Washington life (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1896), by Harriet Riddle Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Décolleté Washington : a national satire (Press of John Cox's Sons, 1892), by Grant Parish (page images at HathiTrust)
- Presidents and pies; life in Washington 1897-1919 (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920), by Isabel Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
- White House gossip, from Andrew Johnson to Calvin Coolidge (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927), by Edna Mary Hercher Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis (Hubbard Brothers, 1886), by Benjamin Perley Poore (page images at HathiTrust)
- The social-official etiquette of the United States (J. Murphy, 1894), by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)
- A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama (Doubleday, Page & company, 1905), by Virginia Clay-Clopton and Ada Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
- Many secrets revealed (Washington, D.C., 1885), by Rollin H. Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
- A fool's paradise: a story of fashionable life in Washington ... (W. H. Morrison, 1884), by Benjamin G. Lovejoy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Etiquette of social life in Washington. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1881), by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)
- Society in Washington. Its noted men, accomplished women, established customs, and notable events. (Printed by the Harrisburg (Pa.) publishing company, 1887), by De B. Randolph Keim (page images at HathiTrust)
- A metrical description of a fancy ball given at Washington, 9th April, 1858. Dedicated to Mrs. Senator Gwin. (F. Philp, 1858), by John von Sonntag de Havilland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Boudoir mirrors of Washington. Anonymous. (The John C. Winston company, 1923), by Nelle M. Scanlan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The court circles of the republic; or, The beauties and celebrities of the nation (Hartford publishing co.; [etc., etc. ], 1869), by E. F. Ellet and Mrs. R. E. Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Washington sketch book (Hartman & Cadick, Printers, 1895), by Ida Hinman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The court circles of the republic, or, The beauties and celebrities of the nation : illustrating life and society under eighteen presidents, describing the social features of the successive administrations from Washington to Grant ... (Hartford Pub. Co., 1869), by E. F. Ellet and Mrs. R. E. Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
- My 21 years in the White House. (Coward-McCann, 1961), by Alonzo Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
- Forty years of Washington society : portrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith. (T. Fisher Unwin, 1906), by Margaret Smith and Gaillard Hunt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- My day reminiscences of a long life (Macmillan, 1909), by Roger A. Pryor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Memoirs and letters of Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, President of the United States (Houghton, Mifflin, 1887), by Dolley Madison and Lucia Beverly Cutts (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life at the national capital (Chapin & Hartwell bros., 1887), by Elizabeth Moore "Mrs. E. N. Chapin. ." Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Society in Washington. Its noted men, accomplished women, established customs, and notable events. (Printed by the Harrisburg (Pa.) publishing company, 1887), by De B. Randolph Keim (page images at HathiTrust)
- National capital code of etiquette (Washington, D.C. : Austin Jenkins Co., [1920], 1920), by Edward S. Green, Randall K. Burkett, and Austin Jenkins Co. (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fr�an Washingtons salonger och hvardagslif m. m.; skildringar i bref till en v�aninna, af Daisy [pseud.] (Wahlstr�om & Widstrand, 1908), by F. U. Wrangel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis. (AMS Press, 1971), by Benjamin Perley Poore (page images at HathiTrust)
- While they fought; behind the scenes in Washington, 1941-1946 (Charles Scribner's sons, 1947), by Helen Cassin Carusi Lombard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- In and out of the White House (W. Funk, 1960), by Ora Griffin Jeffries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The social ladder (Nash & Grayson, 1924), by Mrs. John King 1848-1925 Van Rensselaer and Frederic F. Van de Water (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- From pinafores to politics (G. Allen & Unwin, 1923), by Florence Jaffray Harriman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66. (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905), by Virginia Clay-Clopton and Ada Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Dobbs family in America. (John Maxwell, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Recollections of full years, by Helen Herron Taft (Gutenberg ebook)
- Aristocracy in America. From the sketch-book of a German nobleman. vol. 2 (of 2), by Francis J. Grund (Gutenberg ebook)
- Aristocracy in America. From the sketch-book of a German nobleman. vol. 1 (of 2), by Francis J. Grund (Gutenberg ebook)
- Washington Confidential, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer (Gutenberg ebook)
- Reminiscences of Peace and War, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (Gutenberg ebook)
- White House China of the Lincoln Administration in the Museum of History and Technology, by Margaret Brown Klapthor (Gutenberg ebook)
- As I Remember: Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century, by Marian Gouverneur (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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