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Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. 105 for $100,000, and deposited in the library. These collections ofbooks, pamphlets, prints, etc., pertaining to early American history,have no equal in the world. They were accumulated during manyyears of earnest and enthusiastic antiquarian labor. In 1S66 thelibrary of the Smithsonian Institution was added to the Library ofCongress. The law department contains nearly 60,000 volumes, and is con-sidered very complete. Every volume of American, English, Irish,and Scotch court reports is to be found here, together with the stat-utes of all countries, from 1649 to the present time. From 4,000 to5,000 volumes are added yearly. This collection of works relating to jurisprudence, which is thelargest and most valuable in the country, is contained in the base-ment story of the Capitol, in what was formerly the chamber of theSupreme Court of the United States. The chamber is directly under-neath the present court chamber, and is a notable example of classicalarchitectu

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