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- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
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- C&NW at Nelson
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- Water Stop
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- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
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Ford's Theatre: 1860s
Old Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1865. View full size. Wet collodion glass plate. Photograph by Mathew Brady.
Legs
Umm ... so the building next to the Dye House has signs with the word "Legs" on it ... was that a prostitution house?
[The sign for O. Mosack (Kosack? Hosack?) is advertising the Jewett Patent Leg, a prosthetic limb. - Dave]
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Here is the same view from September of 2009. The theater recently reopened after being closed for some time for renovations. In addition, a new visitor's center was constructed next door. Although the interior of the theater looks "as it appeared" in April of 1865, the interior is a reconstruction. Shortly after Lincoln's assasination the theater closed. It was then leased to the War Department for use as government offices. In 1866, the US government purchased the building and it housed War Department offices until 1893 when the roof collapsed and killed 22 people and injured many more. In 1932 the building reopened to the public as the Lincoln Museum. Only in 1968 did it reopen as Ford's Theater and had its first performance in over 100 years in 1969.
Morbid Neighbor
Right next door is the Dye House. Eeeeeeeerie!
Plain
I'm amazed that there's no marquee. How did anyone know what was playing? Was the marquee an invention of the electric age?
How times have changed
Amazing to see D.C. with dirt streets. Hard to imagine.
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