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Image: Georgetown 1829

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Description: Engraving of the Georgetown University campus in 1829. The first college building, Old South, is on the left. On the right is Old North. In the foreground in a handball alley. Published in a prosectus sent out to advertise the college in 1829. It is the earliest known image of the campus in the university's archives.
Title: Georgetown 1829
Credit: The Quadrangle: A history in fifty images (archived here)
Author: S. Pinistri, artist; W. Harrison, engraver
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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