Washington Gallery

Department of State and the Army and Navy, Washington DC, 1882

New building for the Departments of State, Army, and Navy (later called the Executive Office Building), Washington DC, 1882.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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American siege of Yorktown, Revolutionary War

Washington directing the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolution, 1781.
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Construction of the Washington Monument, 1880s

Top of the shaft during construction of the Washington Monument, and an interior view, 1884.
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