Dedication of the Washington National Monument — 1855

Updated on July 27: This book has been sold.

Full title: Dedication of the Washington National Monument, with the Orations by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop and Hon. John W. Daniel. February 21, 1885. Published in Washington, D.C. by the Government Printing Office in 1885. 122 pages.

Our copy is in extremely good condition, with the interior pages in excellent condition.

With the invitation to the Ceremonies on the Completion of the Washington Monument, a comprehensive overview of the exercises, processions, and ceremonies during the event.

It also includes a transcription of the addresses and correspondence 

• Address by Hon. John Sherman
• Prayer by Rev. Henderson Suter
• Address by Hon. W.W. Corocoran
• Remarks of Col. Thomas Lincoln Casey, Chief Engineer
• President's Arthur Dedicatory Address
• Oration by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, read for him by Hon. John Davis Long, late Governor of Massachusetts
• Oration by Hon. John W. Daniel
• Correspondences from U.S. Grant, R.B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, and more.

The completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885, and opened to the public on October 9, 1888. 

Upon completion it would become the world's tallest structure until it was surpassed by the Eiffel Tower in 1889.

Featuring an attractive engraved frontispiece commemorating the Washington Monument's completion, which doubled as an invitation to the ceremony. Gilt lettering on front cover. 

Size: 7.25" x 10.5

Also available and relating the building of the Washington Monument:

• Washington Monument Fundraising Certificate — 1850 — With donor's name and amount — Framed
• Washington National Monument Society fundraising report from 1854, with cover note to Masonic Lodges
• Framed, hand-colored steel engraving of the original design of the Washington Monument