"Dickey Christmas tree, 1919." The family of Washington, D.C., lawyer Raymond Dickey. 8x6 inch glass negative, National ... I read they lived at 1702 Kilbourne NW in Washington DC, it can be found on Google Street View. I wonder what it looks like inside ...
January 1943. Washington, D.C. "Firehouse Station No. 4, one of the separate Negro units in ... picture.
The Hornet's Nest Although Washington DC had Black firefighters as far back as 1868, Engine Company No. 4 was ... U Street “Black Broadway”. Burton Westbrook Johnson, DC’s first Black Fire Chief (1973), came up through the ranks from Engine ...
Washington, D.C., circa 1912. "Union Station plaza and Columbus fountain." 8x6 ... 25 years, when I was a communications consultant in the DC area, my partner and I would meet with clients in Union Station for meetings ... Kodak Carousels projected a continuous slide show about DC and its monuments and attractions. I watched the show several times, or ...
... junior high.
Try 800 days Distance from Caracas to DC is a little over 2000 miles. At 25 miles a day it would take 800 days to ... I received an interesting letter from a young man I met at Washington, D. C., while attending the National Scout Jamboree. This man was ...
And Lincoln, too. Interior of the Apolonia Stuntz toy store on New York Avenue, seen from the outside in the previous post. View full size.
The Newspaper ...on the ceiling fixture. At first I thought it was put there by the photographer ...
... Bernard Jr. are in the 1940 census, living in Washington DC, where Bernard Sr. is an insurance agent. All 3 were born in Pennsylvania. ... as "Tool Rpr".
In 1950, they are back in Washington DC, where Senior is manager of a service station. Lenore works for the Federal ...
September 30, 1918. "Fourth Liberty Loan." Crowds gathered for a war-bond rally on Pennsylvania Avenue with the Capitol in the distance. View full size.
A smoggy day Those old cars certainly did belch. Looks like LA!
Car-cophany ...
June 28, 1913. Washington, D.C. "Massachusetts Avenue Heights." Woodland Drive at 32nd Street ... and $8.3 million.
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Posh Digs This neighborhood was ...
"D.D. Collins." Another circa 1925 scene from the O Street Market in Washington. Who wants ham? National Photo Co. Collection glass negative. View full size.
Market Basket Everyone has one! I went shopping last night for groceries, brin ...
... store. One thing that puzzles me (I live just outside of Washington, and work downtown) is there is not, as far as I can tell, a Union ... to walk at night without tripping.
This 1897 map of DC shows This 1897 map of DC shows that Union St SW ran from M to O in ...
District of Columbia, 1919. Willard Service Station, Washington Battery Co., 1623 L Street. The sign: "We respectfully request customers to refrain from talking to workmen. Any information desired will be cheerfully given out by floor superintende ...
December 1925. Washington, D.C. "W.W. Lodding (tree & son)." Scion of Walter W. Lodding, ... and -- in contrast to his peripatetic childhood (New York, DC, Atlanta, Chicago) -- seems to have spent the rest of his life in ...
"Washington Sanitarium. Takoma Park, Maryland," circa 1928. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. The doctor will see you now!
Clank Just ignore that chain on the floor. We only use it after the ether kicks ...
Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "U.S. Capitol dome from rail yards in Southeast ... the Southern RR yards located in the Southwest section of DC. The view of the Capitol is the West Front with the Library of Congress ...