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Incredible Color Photo From Southwest D.C. During World War II

1940s

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This photo is from 1942 and it speaks for itself. Stunning.

N and Union St. SW (1942)

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It’s courtesy of Shorpy again. Best … site … ever. I should add that this is color, not colorized like the Lincoln photo.

READ: GoDCer Shares Film Footage of Washington in 1949

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Photos of 1940s Boarding House Living

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Unbuilt Three Sisters Bridge Across the Potomac

AERIAL VIEW OF WEST/FRONT AND NORTH/SIDE FACADES, LOOKING SOUTHEAST (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT): VA-1272 Ball Building, 1437 N. Court House Road. VA-1273 Jesse Building, 1423-27 N. Court House Road. VA-1276 Jesse-Hosmer Building, 1419 N. Court House Road. VA-1275 Moncure (Adams, Porter, Radigan) Building, N. 1415 Court House Road. VA-1274 Rucker Building, N. 1403 Court House Road. - Lawyers' Row Block, North Court House Road between Fourteenth & Fifteenth Streets, Arlington, Arlington County, VA

Mid-1990s Photo of Arlington

U.S. Sanitary Commission 1863

Photos and Map From Civil War Convalescent Camp

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Today's Featured Posts

1888 map of East Capitol St.

1888 Map of East Capitol Street

Connecticut Avenue Association advertisement in the Washington Times - February 3rd, 1921

Connecticut Avenue, the Shopping Focus of Quality and Economy

Machine gun sets up outside the Lincoln Memorial on December 8th, 1941

Machine Guns at the Lincoln Memorial

Girl, Despondent, Takes Acid; Dies

1919 map of Petworth

Maps of Petworth Development from 1903 to 1919

Maine Ave. SW 1865

Incredible 1865 Photo of the Capitol

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"Full size mockup of partial Metro station 1968" from Harry Weese Associates' 1994 book describing Metro's early plans.

Metro’s 17-Foot Long “Experimental Station” in 1968

Why Is It Named Trinidad?

Map of Washington Subdivisions in 1961

The Story of Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s Mansion

Richard Nixon

Nixon: I Am Not a Crook

Robert Todd Lincoln at His Father’s Memorial Dedication

Au Pied de Cochon

Remember Au Pied de Cochon?

Video Visualizing Early Washington, D.C.

Abraham Lincoln colorized (1865)

Abraham Lincoln in Color (1865)

Susan Ford gettin' down in the East Room with her date

Senior Prom at the White House

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Best of Ghosts of DC

May 29, 1959. "Prince George Plaza, Hyattsville, Maryland. Night view." An actual mall (a long, open plaza) when it opened in 1959, the shopping center was enclosed in the 1970s and renamed the Mall at Prince Georges. Large-format safety negative by Samuel H. Gottscho.

Prince George’s Plaza in 1959

Rock Creek Parkway

1886 Plan to Fill In and Build Over Rock Creek

Which President Got a Speeding Ticket on a Horse?

Really Old Pre-Civil War Photo of Washington

1890s Map of Diarrhea Deaths in Washington

Mormon Temple Outside D.C.: Three Great Stories

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