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ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| President Taft | Frontispiece | |
| Bird's-eye View of Washington, Looking East from the Monument | Between 4 and 5 | |
| Bird's-eye View of Washington, Looking Down the Potomac from the Monument | Between 8 and 9 | |
| The Capitol | Between 12 and 13 | |
| Plan of the Principal Floor of the Capitol | 15 | |
| Brumidi Frieze in Rotunda | 22 | |
| Brumidi Frieze in Rotunda | 23 | |
| The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation | 27 | |
| The Mace | 41 | |
| The Speaker's Room | 42 | |
| Group I | Between 48 and 49 | |
| Statuary Hall | ||
| "Westward Ho!" | ||
| Washington Declining Overtures from Cornwallis | ||
| The Senate Chamber | ||
| Some Prominent Senators | ||
| The House of Representatives in Session | ||
| Some Prominent Representatives | ||
| New House Office Building | ||
| Seating Plan of the Supreme Court Chamber | 54 | |
| Group II | Between 80 and 81 | |
| Justices of the Supreme Court | ||
| The Supreme Court Room | ||
| The Treasury Building | ||
| New Municipal Building | ||
| Government Printing Office | ||
| New Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Union Station | ||
| The Smithsonian Institution | ||
| The New National Museum | ||
| Macerating $10,000,000 of Money | 88 | |
| The Patent Office | 114 | |
| Group III | Between 128 and 129 | |
| The Bureau of Indian Affairs | ||
| The Congressional Library | ||
| Grand Stairway of the Congressional Library | ||
| The Rotunda (Reading-room) of the Congressional Library | ||
| The Pension Office | ||
| The State, War, and Navy Departments | ||
| The German Embassy | ||
| The British Embassy | ||
| The New French Embassy | ||
| The Russian Embassy | ||
| One of the Bronze Doors of the Congressional Library | 133 | |
| The Declaration of Independence | 148 | |
| Fish Commission Building | 163 | |
| Mrs William H. Taft | 166 | |
| Group IV | Between 176 and 177 | |
| The President and Cabinet | ||
| Entrance to the White House | ||
| New Wing of the White House | ||
| South Front of the White House | ||
| North Front of the White House | ||
| Grand Corridor—White House | ||
| State Dining-room—White House | ||
| Mount Vernon—From South Lawn | ||
| Tomb of Washington—Mount Vernon | ||
| Home of General Lee | ||
| Monument to the Unknown Dead, Arlington National Cemetery | ||
| The Washington Monument | ||
| Charlotte Corday | 181 | |
WASHINGTON
ITS SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS