{"id":2938,"date":"2016-09-23T15:38:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2016-09-23T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:38:50","slug":"the-albert-h-small-washingtoniana-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/09\/the-albert-h-small-washingtoniana-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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E.G. Arnold, Topographical Map of the Original District of Columbia and Environs, 1862. Map, 74 \u00d7 81 cm. Library of Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection<\/a> at the George Washington University Museum collects historical documents and other items relating to the history of Washington, DC. The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em> has a profile of its patron, Albert H. Small, who donated\u00a0the collection to the university in 2011, and the collection itself.\u00a0Of interest to us is the\u00a0collection’s maps of the capital city, including the Arnold Map of 1862<\/a> (above):<\/p>\n

Published during the Civil War, the map\u2019s detailed, topographical view of Washington included all 53 forts that guarded the city. Secretary of War\u00a0Edwin Stanton\u00a0<\/b>ordered all the maps confiscated lest they fall into Confederate hands. Small has one. There\u2019s a 1671 map of Maryland, too, the second map of the colony ever published, and a 1904 map of the St. Elizabeths Hospital grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s probably the best map collection outside the Library of Congress,\u201d Goode said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Small Collection isn’t online (its web page<\/a> has very little to it); to see its holdings, you’ll have to visit the Museum<\/a>. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University Museum collects historical documents and other items relating to the history of Washington, DC. The\u00a0Washington Post has a profile of its patron, Albert H.… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[656,305],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-gwu","tag-washington-dc","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791855,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/10\/albert-h-small-1925-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":2938,"position":0},"title":"Albert H. 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