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West from the Capitol, Washington DC Stereoview

West from the Capitol, Washington DC Stereoview/tiles/collection/2/25008.xml
West from the Capitol, Washington DC Stereoview/tiles/collection/2/25003.xml
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Date

1868

Maker

Kilburn Brothers

Dimensions

3 1/8 × 6 9/16 in. (7.9 × 16.7 cm)

Accession Number

2016.021.002

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

This 1868 stereoview image takes in the view looking west from the Capitol. This vista shows an exhausted postwar city. The land was still recovering from the Civil War years, when troops trampled the landscape and camped all over the city. The National Mall was a muddy, woodsy expanse, and home to a once-busy canal that turned fetid and largely obsolete by the Civil War.

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