Slide Reads: Capitol at W. on Mar. 15. 1861 From MESELVE? or Meigs Photo. Photograph of image of unfinished capitol building and crowd on the day of President Abraham Lincoln's inauguration. May have been taken at Library of Congress or from periodical.
Photographed from "History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society" / by Harvey, Frederick L. Washington, D.C.: Norman T. Elliott Print. Co, 1902.
Photographed from "History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society" / by Harvey, Frederick L. Washington, D.C.: Norman T. Elliott Print. Co, 1902.