Identifier: picturesquewashi00moor (find matches)
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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he copy of a bill of Congress, or areport, which will make fifty or sixty large printed pages, may bereceived at ten oclock in the morning, with orders for immediatedelivery. It will be put in type, the proof read twice and corrected,and in two or three hours the bill or report, printed and bound, willbe ready to be delivered. The finest work ever produced by this office was The Medicaland Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. It was printed onvery costly paper, and contained a great number of magnificent illus-trations, executed at a cost of many thousands of dollars. An editionof 2,000 copies was first issued, and afterward Congress ordered an-other edition of 10,000 copies. The work was demanded by all theprincipal libraries of the world. In the bindery can be seen every process known to the trade, in-cluding marbling, embossing, stamping, and other high branches.Some of the volumes issued are bound in sumptuous style. In thefoundry, electrotyping and stereotyping are done.
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o 1- ~J CHAPTER XVI. SKETCHES OF CITY LIFE —THE FASHIONABLE QUARTER — PALATIAL MANSIONS— THE ROUND OF SOCIAL FESTIVITY—OFFICIAL AND SOCIETY ETIQUETTE —THE GOVERNMENT CLERKS— CUSTOMS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE —THENEGRO POPULATION —ODD CHARACTERS AND WAYS OF LIVING. THOSE who knew Washington before the Board of PublicWorks, under the leadership of Governor Shepherd, beganthe remarkable improvements, described elsewhere, and whohave not visited the city since, can hardly imagine the greatchange that has taken place everywhere within its boundary. Thestreets once filled with rude specimens of architecture, now containver) handsome structures, varied and ornate ; and in the popular resi-dent sections the majority of the houses are notable for their pleasingand tasteful forms. In the extensive northwest quarter there havebeen erected during the past ten years large numbers of very costlyand magnificent houses, which in variety and elegance of form, insize, and in luxurious appoi

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