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Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1923	Olsen, William	Washington, D.C.	Washington the Beautiful Capital of the Nation	$1,250	Picture

An lithographed map, with full color wash

Size: 22 inches X 32 inches

Map Type: Loose City

This is a superior copy, with vivid colors.

A beautiful "birds eye" view of the city of Washington, D.C. Across the top appears "Baltimore and Ohio", "America's First Railroad", "Washinton's First Railroad". A full index key to the location of all the public buildings and places of interest appears along the bottom margin.

An inset in the lower right of the map reads "Washington. The Heart of the Nation" "This Aero View of Washington is the most remarkable map picture that has ever been made. Remarkable for its great range of visions and the stupendous task in making such a drawing and the extreme accu

"It shows the city in perspective from a point of vantage east of the Congressional Library looking northwest, thus including the most attractive suburbs with the Capitol in the foreground."

"This work occupied two years of continuous time of the greatest Bird's-Eye View artist in the country. No map view of this vast and comprehensive nature has ever been made of any City, ind it is especially a great accomplishment when it is considered that Washington's immense area of public buildings, pars and suburbs is show here in a picture form which anyone may become familiar with the streets, business blocks and public buildings."

"Even though it has a 'Bird's-Eye View' effect, it has all been sketched from the ground and every block and building is in it's proper survey."

racy in the architectural 'lay-out'."

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