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Published
March 20, 2013
Grant Circle and Petworth in 1916
1916 map of Grant Circle and surrounding neighborhood of Petworth.
Rare Footage of FDR Dedicating the NIH Campus in Bethesda in 1940
The Walter Reed Streetcar Wreck of October 13th, 1919
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This is a set of maps from 1916, showing a very different, and sparsely developed
Petworth
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map of Grant Circle in 1916
map of Grant Circle in 1916
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