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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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manding situation on the top of Capi-tol hill, near the statehouse and severalother public buildings. It is founded on aplan which does great credit to thestate of New York, which has so hon-orably distinguished itself by its liberalprovision for the diffusion of education. The central Normal School is also es-tablished in Albany, and is doing impor-tant good by preparing teachers for thecommon schools. The City-Hall was built in 1832, ofwhite marble from Sing-Sing, quarriedand hewn by the prisoners, with a base-ment, and a facade with six Ionic col-umns and a dome covered with gildinsr,the only specimen of the kind in theUnited States. The circular hall or ro-tunda contains a statue of Hamilton,copied from one by Greenough, whichwas destroyed in the New York ex-change by the great fire. There are al-so portraits of Clinton and WalterScott in relief, surrounded by emblems. The State-Hall.—This edifice standsnear the city-hall, and is one hundredand thirty-eight by eighty-eight feet.
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