US places:historical views 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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Early view of the White House, 1807

East front of the White House with porticos added, circa 1807.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a drawing by architect Benjamin H. Latrobe

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Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, 1890s

Chicago's Dearborn Avenue north of Chestnut Street: Newberry Library, Unity Church, and New England Congregational Church (left-right), 1890s.
Albertype reproduction of a photograph

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