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- Coal and Gravel Delivery
- RE: Two ears, etc.
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- 1100 2nd Street SW
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- The Long Shed ...
- Trestle
- Pass to the right
- Who's on Second?
- 2nd story story
- Did they get to eat it?
- Two ears, etc.
- I Miss The Smell
- What is that?
- Sauced
- Whose?
- Mrs. Landis
- The location today
- Not the marrying kind
- No kisses in Lititz
- That plate at the near end of the table --
- Poor kid
- Freedom from Want
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- Wait. a. minute. here --
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- The old man
- Plumbing?
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Naval Railway Gun: 1919
Washington, D.C., circa 1919, somewhere along M Street. "Big naval gun of type used in France." These 14-inch, 50-caliber railway guns, deployed to France toward the end of World War I, had a range of 24 miles. More information here, here and here. As well as on this plaque. 8x6 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.
Washington Navy Yard - Naval Gun Factory
The Washington Navy Yard had the world’s largest naval ordnance plant by World War II, which produced the things that were fired by the guns manufactured at the Naval Gun Factory also onboard the WNY, both under the cognizance of the Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance. The WNY was renamed the United States Naval Gun Factory in 1945, the United States Naval Weapons Plant in 1959, and back to the Washington Navy Yard in 1962 when ordnance production ended. As can be seen in the photo of a 16 inch naval gun on display at the WNY, naval guns made at the WNY were marked as U.S. Naval Gun Factory, this one in 1922. Navy Gun Car No. 142 and the plaque are also on display at the WNY, where I worked for 18 years, in a park across the street from the former location of NCIS headquarters.
Photo by me, May 2016.
Washington Navy Yard
Someone hearing "M Street" will probably think of the Northwest thoroughfare that begins in Georgetown (where it's the Main drag) and runs east to Gallaudet University.
This, however, is M Street Southeast, a mile south of the Capitol and the northern border of Washington Navy Yard, site of the Naval Gun Factory where the World War I railway guns were built (or assembled).
[Also the Naval Ordnance Factory. - Dave]
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