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- Puck: 1955
- Statue of Puck at the Folger Shakespeare Museum in Washington, DC. Picture was dated 1955. From my negatives collection. View ... Posted by mhallack - 11/22/2013 - 7:43pm -
- Gitchee Gitchee Goo
- ... at an estate sale. I believe it was taken in 1957 in Washington State. The boy looks like he's being tickled. View full size.
... Posted by Retrophile - 09/21/2013 - 2:20am -
- Carl Florence: 1918
- Private Carl Florence of Creston, Washington. Entered service July 25th, 1918. Died of bronchial pneumonia ... Posted by Corwyn - 01/09/2015 - 7:53pm -
- Yosemite
- ... possibly Yosemite -- on the way to work at ship yards in Washington State during WWII, 1942 or 43. View full size.
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- Big George at the Fair: 1939
- The statue of George Washington was apparently really, really big at the 1939 New York World's Fair. ... Posted by aenthal - 08/18/2017 - 7:44pm -
- Quartermaster's Department: 1860s
- ... of the 19th century the AL&H became the electrified Washington and Old Dominion RR, abandoned in 1968.
See other views of this building taken about the same time in Ames Williams' book "Washington and Old Dominion RR, 1847-1968".
(The Gallery, Civil War) ... Posted by Dave - 06/27/2009 - 5:39am -
![U.S. Army Quartermaster's Department, Alexandria, Virginia. View full size. Albumen print from a photograph by Andrew J. Russell taken during the Civil War (1861-1865). Note the elaborate signal mast on the roof.
TowerWhat's the thing that looks like a radio tower on top of the building?
[Does anyone read the captions on these pictures?? - Dave]
Nope, Not Radio......A dentist, Mahlon Loomis, supposedly "demonstrated" a method of wireless communication about a year after the war. This was largely forgotten.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahlon_Loomis
Marconi's work came later in the century, to better acclaim.
[The thing on the roof is, as noted in the caption, a signal mast. - Dave]
Alexandria StationThis structure had been the Alexandria station of the Alexandria, Loudon and Hampshire RR to Leesburg. At the end of the 19th century the AL&H became the electrified Washington and Old Dominion RR, abandoned in 1968.
See other views of this building taken about the same time in Ames Williams' book "Washington and Old Dominion RR, 1847-1968".
(The Gallery, Civil War)](https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/08244u_1.thumbnail.jpg "Quartermaster's Department: 1860s")
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