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.
Hartford, Conn. A. D. Worthington & Co., 1901. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [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]. More