Excerpt from The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C: With a Documentary History of the Club From Its Organization to November 16, 1903<br><br>The illustrations of the Club buildings and of Lafayette Square were made from photographs taken under the supervision of Mr. T. W. Smillie. A member of the Club. Designs of head and tail pieces by Messrs. H. Hobart Nichols, A. H. Baldwin and H. Chadwick Hunter, members of the Club. And by Mr. J. Mills Thompson.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.