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Alley Up: 1935
November 1935. "View of alley between K and L streets in Northwest Washington behind North Capitol Street. Blake School in background." Medium format negative by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Saint Phillips Church
Almost the entire photo is a parking lot now, though the tall, peaked roof visible behind the former Blake School in the background is the still-standing Saint Phillips Baptist Church (1001 North Capitol NE): http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/highsm.10183/
Purchased by Douglas Development in March 2017 for conversion to a synagogue, now something else: https://www.popville.com/2022/04/town-2-point-0/
Come Set a Spell
Sheds? I recall the eminent broadcast journalist David Brinkley, who worked radio early in his career in D.C., saying that the District in 1941 "boasted" of still having 15,000 outdoor privies. I think the wooden lean-to's seen here may harbor more than a mower and rake.
[We can see some privies over on the right (enlarged below). - Dave]
Laundry lad
Somewhat past halfway down the row of attached rear sheds on the left, just where there are two gaps in the row, I spy a young fellow, busy at what looks like hanging up laundry on the short diagonal line.
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