Engineering projects directed by Montgomery Meigs,Washington,D.C.

Engineering projects directed by Montgomery Meigs, Washington, D.C.
Title: Engineering projects directed by Montgomery Meigs, Washington, D.C.
Related Names:
Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892 , engineer
Date Created/Published: ca. 1852-ca. 1860.
Summary: Includes photographs of architecture, design, and engineering drawings for interior details of the U.S. Capitol, the General Post Office, and the Washington Aquaduct (Cabin John Bridge) as well as sculpture models for the Capitol building. Construction photographs of the Capitol dome and extensions, the General Post Office, and the Washington Aqueduct at Cabin John (Union Arch). Also one view of the Bullfinch gatehouses and one of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Eng.
Notes:
Digitized images of these items display with associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Photographs are 9 x 14 cm. or smaller.
Gift; William H. Boswell; 1981; DLC/PP-1981:182.
Unpublished finding aid available in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room (filed by LOT number).
Album (presumed to have been compiled by or for Montgomery Meigs) came into possession of the Albert Frye family (listed in Washington, D.C. directories as builders) and was given by them to the Boswell family ca. 1930.
Subjects:
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1850-1860.
Engineering--Washington (D.C.)--1850-1860.
Architecture--Washington (D.C.)--1850-1860.
Bridges--Maryland--Cabin John--1850-1860.
Aqueducts--Washington (D.C.)--1850-1860.
Capitols--Washington (D.C.)--1850-1860.
Post offices--Washington (D.C.)--1850-1860.
Albumen prints--1850-1860.
Design drawings--Reproductions--1850-1860.
Photograph albums--1850-1860.
Salted paper prints--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2003653220/
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