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• Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: a Contributor's Guide (1995), by Stephanie A. Hall (illustrated HTML at LOC)

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

• The Palace and Park, its Natural History and its Portrait Gallery, Together With a Description of the Pompeian Court, in the Undermentioned Guides: 1. Palalace and Park; 2. Portrait Gallery; 3. Ethnology and Natural History; 4. Extinct Animals; 5. Pompeian Court (5 guides in 1 volume; London: Crystal Palace Library, and Bradbury and Evans, 1854), by Samuel Phillips, R. G. Latham, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and George Scharf, illust. by Philip H. Delamotte
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Living Homes for Cultural Expression: North American Native Perspectives on Creating Community Museums (c2006), ed. by Karen Coody Cooper and Nicolasa I. Sandoval (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• 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)
• Greek Letter Men of Washington (New York: Umbdenstock Pub. Co., 1900), by W. J. Maxwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• My Own Life Story (Washington, DC: Hamilton Printing, 1924), by Sterling N. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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

• 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 (Gutenberg text)
• Marion Manning: A Novel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by Edith Livingston Morton Eustis
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Senator North, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• Trumps: A Novel (New York: Harper and Bros., c1861), by George William Curtis, illust. by Augustus Hoppin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML and page images at Indiana
• The Washingtonians, by Pauline Bradford Mackie (HTML at Emory)
• The Woodley Lane Ghost, and Other Stories (Philadelphia: Drexel Biddle, 1899), by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Long Day in a Short Life (New York: International Publishers, c1957), by Albert Maltz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gilded Age (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Harper and Bros., c1915), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• The Washington Star (partial serial archives)
• The Washington Times (1894-1939) (partial serial archives)
• The Washington Post (partial serial archives)
• The Washington Herald (partial serial archives)
• The American (Washington (DC) newspaper, 1857-1858) (partial serial archives)
• American Telegraph (DC newspaper, 1851) (full serial archives)
• Daily American Telegraph (partial serial archives)
• The Hatchet (partial serial archives)
• The Madisonian (19th century Washington (DC) newspaper) (partial serial archives)
• The National Era (partial serial archives)
• The National Tribune (partial serial archives)
• Green Pages (US Green party publication) (partial serial archives)

• 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)
• 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

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

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Etiquette of Society at the National Capital (Washington: Gibson Bros., 1892), by Mary Pollok Nimmo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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