Washington Monument
A History
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

ARCHIVES AND DOCUMENTS

National Archives and Records Service, Records of the Washington National Monument Society, Record Group 42.

National Capital Parks, Mail and Records Branch, General Correspondence, File 1430/Washington Monument, General, 1925-1966.

Director of Public Buildings and Parks. Annual Report, 1925-30. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925-30.

Harvey, Federick L. (comp.) History of the Washington National Monument Society. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903

House Document No. 528, 72d Congress, 2d Session, "Improvement of the Washington Monument Grounds," January 19, 1933. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1934.

Public Building and Public Parks of the National Capital. The Completion of the Washington National Monument (Annual Reports and Documents, 1874-87). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874-87.

War Department, Chief of Engineers. Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867-1925.

Washington National Monument Society. A Brief History of the Washington National Monument Society. Washington: National Park Service, 1962.

______. Washington: Man and Monument. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890.

___________. Review of the Report of the Board of U. S. Army Engineers on the Foundation of the Washington National Monument. Washington: Gibson Bros., Printer, 1877.


BOOKS

Bryan, W. B. A History of the National Capital. 2 vols. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1916.

Caemmerer, H. Paul. Historic Washington, Capital of the Nation. Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1948.

Columbia Historical Society. Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 50 vols. Washington: The Society, 1899-1960.

Green, Mrs. Constance McLaughlin. Washington. Village and Capital, 1800-1887. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962.

___________. Washington, Capital City, 1879-1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.

Hutchins, S., and J. W. Moore. The National Capital, Past and Present. Washington: The Post Publishing Co., 1895.

Leupp, Frances E. Walks About Washington. New York: Little Brown & Co., 1916.

Moore, Charles. Washington, Past and Present. New York: The Century Co., 1929.

Moore, Joseph West. Picturesque Washington. Providence: J. A. and R. A. Reid, 1884.

Nevins, Allan (ed.) Polk, The Diary of a President, 1845—1849 New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 19?

Nicolay, Helen. Our Capital on the Potomac. New York: The Century Co., 1924.

Rainy, Ada. The Charm of Old Washington. New York, 1932.

Samuels, Ernest. Henry Adams: The Middle Years. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.

Smith, Mrs. Samuel Harrison. The First Forty Years of Washington Society. Washington: C. Scribner's & Sons, 1906.

Williams, Charles P. The Life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1914.


PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Ditzell, Paul, "How They Built the Washington Monument," The American Legion Magazine (February 1968), pp. 25-52.

"George Washington's Monument," American Heritage Magazine, XX No. 1 (December 1968), 68—73.

Parkhill, S. M., "Washington National Monument," Compressed Air Magazine (September 1957), pp. 266-69.



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