Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs

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• Washington (D.C.)

• A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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 (1869), by E. F. Ellet, illust. by Mrs. R. E. Mack (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Etiquette of Social Life in Washington (Washington, D.C: J. A. Wineberger, 1873), by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• 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)
• Recollections of Full Years (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914), by Helen Herron Taft (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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 (1869), by E. F. Ellet, illust. by Mrs. R. E. Mack (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Mirrors of Washington, by Clinton W. Gilbert and John Kirby (Gutenberg text)

• History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics, by William C. Allen (PDF files at gpo.gov)
• On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress, by John Young Cole (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

• Behind the Scenes in Washington, by James Dabney McCabe (page images at MOA)
• De Paris au Niagara: Journal de Voyage d'une Délégation (in French; Paris: A. Dupret, 1887), by Charles Bigot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• See! See! See! Guide to Jamestown Exposition, Historic Virginia, and Washington (Washington: Byron S. Adams, 1907) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• Boyd's Directory of the District of Columbia (partial serial archives)
• The Washington and Georgetown Directory, Strangers' Guide-Book for Washington, and Congressional and Clerks' Register, by Alfred Hunter (page images at MOA)

• Democracy: An American Novel, by Henry Adams
  • illustrated HTML at Eldritch Press
  • Gutenberg text
• The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Long Day in a Short Life (New York: International Publishers, c1957), by Albert Maltz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Senator North, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• The Washingtonians, by Pauline Bradford Mackie Hopkins (HTML at Emory)

• Roose's Companion and Guide to Washington and Vicinity (Third Edition, 1876), by Samuel Douglas Wyeth (page images at MOA)
• The Washington and Georgetown Directory, Strangers' Guide-Book for Washington, and Congressional and Clerks' Register, by Alfred Hunter (page images 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.), 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, 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)

• Peggy Stewart at School (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1918), by Gabrielle E. Jackson (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Green Pages (US Green party publication) (partial serial archives)

• A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• "Marse Henry": An Autobiography, by Henry Watterson
  • Volume I: illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Volume II: illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• 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)

• Behind the Scenes in Washington, by James Dabney McCabe (page images at MOA)

• Acid Rain and Our Nation's Capital: A Guide to Effects on Buildings and Monuments, by Elaine S. McGee (illustrated HTML at USGS)

• On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress, by John Young Cole (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

• Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections: An Illustrated Guide, by Library of Congress (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• Acid Rain and Our Nation's Capital: A Guide to Effects on Buildings and Monuments, by Elaine S. McGee (illustrated HTML at USGS)

• Habeas Works: Federal Courts' Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases (2010), by Human Rights First (Organization) and Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)

• Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: a Contributor's Guide, by Stephanie Hall (HTML at LOC)

• Etiquette of Social Life in Washington (Washington, D.C: J. A. Wineberger, 1873), by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress, by John Young Cole (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

• On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress, by John Young Cole (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States, by Library of Congress (searchable HTML at LOC)
• Library of Congress Hispanic and Portuguese Collections: An Illustrated Guide, by Library of Congress (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• History and Evidence of the Passage of Abraham Lincoln From Harrisburg, Pa., to Washington, D.C., on the Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third of February, 1861 (ca. 1906), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lincoln Memorial: The Journeys of Abraham Lincoln, by William Turner Coggeshall (page images at MOA)

• On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress, by John Young Cole (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

• An Essay on Grades, Drainage, and Extension of the Public Grounds in the City of Washington as a System of General Improvement (page images at MOA)

• An Essay on Grades, Drainage, and Extension of the Public Grounds in the City of Washington as a System of General Improvement (page images at MOA)

• Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections: An Illustrated Guide, by Library of Congress (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• Proceedings of the United States Senate, on the Fugitive Slave Bill, the Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbia, and the Imprisonment of Free Colored Seamen in the Southern Ports, by United States Senate (page images at MOA)

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