"Babe Ruth knocked out, 7/5/24. Nationals salvage split of doubleheader as Ruth crashes into wall (Yankees 2, Nats 0; Nats 7, Yankees 2). Babe Ruth was knocked unconscious after he ran into a concrete wall at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., while trying to catch a foul ball on July 5, 1924." View full size.

        First posted here 10 years ago, and now updated with a better-quality image.

1925. Washington, D.C. "Texas Co., Minute Service Station No. 8, Twining City." Pennsylvania Avenue at Railroad Avenue S.E. near the Sousa Bridge. 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1922. "William Grass." Who ran the mile in a smoking 4:20. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1924. "George Washington University group." Not afraid of Virginia Woolf. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Taylor-Tolley Motor Co., authorized Ford agents, interior." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1925. "Cathedral Avenue." 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1922. "Christmas Post Office." Last glimpsed here. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Shoreham Hotel, 15th and H Streets N.W." This smorgasbord of architectural styles was demolished in 1929 to make way for an office building. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Street scene, New York Avenue & H Street N.W., from Masonic Temple. New York Avenue Presbyterian Church with Woodward Building behind, and Southern and Real Estate Trust buildings." 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1924. "Lincoln roadster at Ford Motor Building, Pennsylvania Avenue." 8x10 glass negative, National Photo Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Treasury Department north from 15th Street & Penna. Ave. N.W." 8x10 glass negative, National Photo Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C. "Emil Berliner, 1915." The German-born inventor and scientist (1851-1929). National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1922. "Japanese legation -- military attache of the Japanese Embassy." General Hatsutaro Haraguchi, second from left; the girl with the doll is his daughter Kukiko. National Photo glass negative. View full size.

        One hundred years ago today ...

October 1917. Washington, D.C. "Knickerbocker Theatre." Harry Crandall's new Knickerbocker cinema at Columbia Road and 18th Street N.W. opened on October 13, 1917, with the historical drama "Betsy Ross," and an appearance by its star, Alice Brady. Less than five years later, 98 moviegoers were killed here when the roof caved in under an accumulation of snow during a blizzard. View full size.

Vienna, Virginia, circa 1920. "H.A. Money." The undertaker Howard A. Money (1859-1931). National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.