Philp's Washington described. A complete view of the American Capital, and the District of Columbia; with many notices, historical, topographical, and scientific, of the seat of government
Philp's Washington Described is a guidebook to the American capital and District of Columbia, published in New York and Philadelphia in 1861 for travellers and general readers. Its pictures are dry black-and-white wood engravings of government buildings, the Capitol and its dome, and a printer's trade card, showing crisp architectural line work, cast shadows drawn with parallel hatching, and cutaway sectional views a designer could borrow for technical diagrams.
