Die-Cut Litho View 'Basket' Souvenir of Washington D.C.

by D. C. Photography: Architecture: Washington

$275 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

ca. 1870. Symmetrical basket shape of blue sheets of heavy paper with two concentric 'rings' of eight circular 1 1/2 lithographic images each in sepia-tone showing views of Washington D.C. Images within golden decorative borders. Central panel with chromolithographed bouquet of flowers. Photographs show the President's residence, State War & Navy department, Capitol Hill, National Museum, U.S. Post Office, Treasury Building, U.S. Patent Office, Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treasury

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