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Daily Archives: July 27, 2012

Time For Another Break … and Sleeping Beauty

Washington circa 1910. "Congress Heights Dramatic Club." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. (Shorpy)

GoDC is 450 posts in now and we’re going to take this next week off to recharge. Hopefully you won’t miss us too much. We will get out an email and fire out a few tweets here and there to share some good old posts. Want to make sure you get that email? Sign up here. Before we go silent ... Read More »

The Citizens’ Military Training Camp

August 21, 1922. "Citizens' Military Training Camp, Camp Meade" (Fort Meade, Md.). National Photo Co. (Shorpy)

This is a great moment in time captured on film. It’s a group of young men at the Citizens’ Military Training Camp in Maryland, which was a camp to teach young men how to be civilian and citizen soldiers. I dug up a great article in the Washington Post from 1971. The author, James W. Mitchell, had spent summers at ... Read More »

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