English: Burn's cottage (earliest building on site of D.C.)
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Photograph shows the home of David Burnes (Burns) and his daughter, Marcia (Burns) Van Ness, with the Washington Monument in the background, Washington, D.C.
Date
circa 1889
date QS:P571,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ds-02131 (digital file from original glass negative)
Call Number: LC-J698- 81842 [P&P]
Notes
On negative sleeve: Public buildings, Washington, D.C.
Title from negative sleeve.
Date from: An illustrated History of the City of Washington, 1977, p. 58. Burn's cottage was demolished in 1894. the Pan American Union building now stands on the site.
Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress).
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