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Photographer: F. Robby
Taken: September 10, 2013
Caption: Burning of the White House
Additional Description: "The spectators stood in awful silence, the city was light and the heavens redden'd with the blaze!" - Eyewitness account, Margaret Bayard Smith, August 1814. The glow of the burning buildings in Washington, D.C., 12 miles away, could be seen from here the night of British occupation.
Submitted: September 10, 2013, by F. Robby of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p254001
File Size: 0.179 Megabytes

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