Pennsylvania capitol. : The Commissioners for Erecting a State Capitol on the public ground at Harrisburg, invite architects to exhibit to them plans and elevations for the contemplated building, at any time previous to the fifteenth of April next. A premium of four hundred dollars will be given for the plan that shall be adopted by the board ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pennsylvania. Commissioners for Erecting a State Capitol.

Contributor:

Findlay, William, 1768-1846.

Crain, Richard Moore, 1777-1852.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 49041.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Pennsylvania--Harrisburg--Designs and plans.

Architecture.

Architecture--Competitions--Pennsylvania--Harrisburg.

Awards.

Architecture--Competitions.

Pennsylvania--Capital and capitol.

Pennsylvania.

Buildings--Pennsylvania--Harrisburg.

Buildings.

Pennsylvania--Harrisburg.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Harrisburg, Pa.] : [publisher not identified], [1819]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

"Proposals will be received, either verbally or in writing, addressed to the secretary of the board, Richard M. Crain, in Harrisburg." Signed: Harrisburg, January 29th, 1819. Wm. Findlay, Rich'd M. Crain, Geo. Bryan, John B. Gibson, Wm. Graydon, commissioners.

The original, held by the Library of Congress, includes a ms. note from Richard M. Crain to the editor of the National intelligencer asking him to "insert the above advertisement in your paper" and "you will please to forward to me by mail the paper containing the advertisement."

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 49041).

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