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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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by H. Adams. Except the idealiza-tions mentioned above, all are from authentic portraits,including details of costume, etc. The great clock of the rotunda, over the door, wasmodeled by J. Flanagan. The clock itself is con-structed of various brilliantly colored precious marbles,and is set against a background of mosaic, on whichare displayed, encircling the clock, the signs of thezodiac in bronze . . . The hands, which are alsogilded, are jeweled with semi-precious stones. The spandrels or triangular wall spaces between the arches are adorned by emblem-atic figures in relief and brought out by color, and the whole is capped by an encirclingentablature of classic beauty, whence springs the superb canopy of the arch, filled withrich ornamentation to its crown, beneath which, in the collar of the dome, is an exceed-ingly interesting and beautiful series of figures in fresco, by E. H. Blashfield, symbol-izing the relations of the nations to human progress— the Evolution of Civilization.
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PHILOSOPHY.—By Bela L. Pratt. 74 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. This glorious fresco consists of twelve seated figures, men and women, personifyingthe great nations of history. All are winged, but this fact is hardly noticeable, yet of much importance in uniting into a whole the detached figures. Four ofBlashfields them are more conspicuous by their lighter colors than the rest, and theyDome are not only those of most importance historically — Egypt, Rome, Italy, Frescos. and England — but they mark the cardinal points of the compass. Egypt, standing at the dawn of civilization, is appropriately placed at theeast, and is a male figure of an ancient Egyptian, holding a tablet. Judea is a woman inan attitude of prayer, whose parted robe displays the vestment of a Jewish high priest;a pillar beside her is inscribed, Leviticus, xix: 18, Thou shalt love thy neighbor asthyself. Greece is personified by a beautiful, diadem-crowned woman. Rome by awarrior in the armor of a centurion, re

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