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Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: H. L. Baldwin Company, Publishers, 1908. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Maroon cloth binding with gilt print on the cover and spine. Clean pages with no markings in the text. There is some foxing on some of the end papers. There is a small tear at the base of the title page. The cover has edge wear and some cloth bleach spotting along the top front edge along with a couple of small soil spots. The spine has some cloth bleach spots on the top end. Superbly illustrated with fifty full page photogravure plates from photographs made by special permission of the United States Government expressly for this work. From Washington to Taft's Administration. 770 pages..
Our National Government, Or Life And Scenes In Our National Capital, Portraying the Wonderful Operations In All The Great Departments, And Describing Every Important Function Of Our Law-Making Bodies, Including Its Historical,Executive, Administrative, Departmental, Artistic, And Social Features, With Sketches Of The Presidents and Their Wives And Of All The Famous Women Who Have Reigned In The White House From Washington’s To Taft’s Administration by Logan, Mrs. John A - 1908
by Logan, Mrs. John A
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Our National Government, Or Life And Scenes In Our National Capital, Portraying the Wonderful Operations In All The Great Departments, And Describing Every Important Function Of Our Law-Making Bodies, Including Its Historical,Executive, Administrative, Departmental, Artistic, And Social Features, With Sketches Of The Presidents and Their Wives And Of All The Famous Women Who Have Reigned In The White House From Washington’s To Taft’s Administration
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H. L. Baldwin Company, Minneapolis, 1908; First Edition; 8vo, 770 pages; maroon cloth; gilt titles; decorative end papers; photo illustrated. Fascinating history of our national government, U.S. Presidents and their wives, and our nation’s capital, with detailed accounts of some of the roles ably played by women. Written by wife of General, later U.S. Senator, John A. Logan (1826-1886). Mrs. Logan came to Washington with her husband for the first time in 1858, and remained there as a key insider for over 30 years. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos, many made expressly for the book. Frontispiece portrait plate of Mrs. Logan, with guard tissue. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, bright, binding tight, sound and square, with some minor cloth wear at the lowermost spine extremity. A detailed first hand account of the inside workings of every department of our National Government, containing a wealth of fascinating and useful information. A book which serves as a reminder of what our national government used to be: open, honest, and dedicated to public service, in marked contrast to our government today.
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- Keywords U. S. Presidents, Government, Civics, Politics, Women, Washington DC, White House, General John A. Logan, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Treasury, U.S. Mint
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Our National Government: Or Life And Scenes In Our National Capital Portraying The Wonderful Operations In All The Great Departments, And Describing Every Important Function Of Our Law-Making Bodies, Including Its Historical, Executive, Administrative, Departmental, Artistic And Social Features, With Sketches Of The Presidents And Their Wives, And Of All The Famous Women Who Have Reigned In The White House From Washington To Taft's Administration
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Minneapolis, Minn.(1908): H.L. Balwin Co. Octavo. 770pp., illustrated, ...Portraying the wonderful operations in all the great departments an describing every important function of our law-making bodies, including its historical, executive, administrative, departmental, artistic and social feature, with sketches of the presidents and their wives and of all the famous women who have reigned in the white house from Washington's to Taft's administration. Bound in brown embossed cloth lettered in gilt, war to spine ends and corners, faint dampstain to lower margins of leaves. A good copy.
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Thirty Years in Washington or Life and Scenes in Our National Capital.; Portraying the Wonderful Operations in all the Great Departments, and Describing Every Important Function of Our National Government, Including its Historical, Executive, Administrative, Departmental, Artistic, and Social Features. With Sketches of the Presidents and Their Wives and of All the Famous Women Who have Reigned in the White House from Washington's to Roosevelt's Administration
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Hartford, Conn: A. D. Worthington & Co, 1901. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. [8], xxxii, [2], 33-752, [2] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Superbly illustrated with fifty full-page photogravure plates from photographs made by special permission of the United States Government expressly for this work. Photograph of Mrs. President Roosevelt seated at her desk in the Library of the remodeled White House--from her latest photograph, approved by herself, and engraved expressly for this book [precedes title page]. In presenting this volume, in the preparation of which the utmost care has been taken, and no expense considered too great, I have endeavored to meet the demand for a story of the birth and growth of our National Capital, and for a comprehensive and interesting description of the countless and mighty interest that center there. The sketches of the Presidents of the great Republic, from Washington to McKinley, together with those of the ladies of the White House,…
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