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In total, the project employed over 6,000 writers. The format was uniform, comprising essays on the state's history and culture, descriptions of its major cities, automobile tours of important attractions, and a portfolio of photographs. Many books in the project have been updated by private companies or republished without updating.
The district encompasses 83 contributing buildings and 9 contributing structures in the central business district of Washington. The district developed between about 1849 and 1940 and includes representative examples of Greek Revival , Late Victorian , and American Craftsman style architecture.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Washington is a city on the south banks of the Missouri River, 50 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri. With an estimated population of 15,075, it is the largest city in Franklin County, Missouri . It is notable for being the " corncob pipe capital of the world," with Missouri Meerschaum located on the city's riverfront.
This is a list of archives from around the world. An archive is an establishment that collects, stores and preserves knowledge in several formats: books , manuscripts , journals , newspapers , magazines , sound and music recordings , videos , play-scripts, patents , databases , maps , stamps , prints , drawings and more.
This list of museums in Missouri encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including non-profit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
Instead, concert tours should all go under the appropriate year subcategories. This is a container category . Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories .
On his election as vice president, he sent Woodrow Wilson a book, inscribed "From your only Vice." [125] Marshall's humor caused him trouble during his time in Washington. He was known to greet citizens walking by his office on the White House tour by saying to them, "If you look on me as a wild animal, be kind enough to throw peanuts at me."