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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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. (2 volumes in one, covering all of Smith's life; London: John Murray, 1903), by Harry George Wakelyn Smith, ed. by G. C. Moore Smith, contrib. by Juana María de los Delores de León Smith (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith: 1787-1819, by Harry George Wakelyn Smith, ed. by G. C. Moore Smith (HTML in New Zealand)

• Commodore Barney's Young Spies: A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1907), by James Otis, illust. by J. Watson Davis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington (London: R. Bentley, 1863), by Rose O'Neal Greenhow
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Siege of Washington, D.C., Written Expressly for Little People, by F. Colburn Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Old Capitol and Its Inmates, by Virginia Lomax (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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 with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital (National Park Service source book series #4; Washington, GPO, 1946), ed. by Saul Kussiel Padover, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

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

• History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics, by William C. Allen (PDF files at gpo.gov)

• The History of Howard University, Washington, D.C., by the Late President William W. Patton, D.D., Ll.D.: 1867 to 1888 (Washington: Industrial Dept., Howard University, 1896), by William W. Patton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c2012), by Maurine Hoffman Beasley
  • multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Northwestern

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• High Low Washington (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1932), by 30-32 (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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)
• The Money-Makers: A Social Parable (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1885), by Henry F. Keenan (multiple formats at Google)

• G. A. R. Guide to Washington, With a Brief Description of Some Points of Historic Interest On and Near the Line of the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. (published for the 26th Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1892), by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• 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 American (Washington (DC) newspaper, 1857-1858) (partial serial archives)
• American Telegraph (DC newspaper, 1851) (full serial archives)
• The Critic (Washington-based newspaper) (partial 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)
• The Washington Herald (partial serial archives)
• Green Pages (US Green party publication) (partial serial archives)

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