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Capital City of the World’s Greatest Nation as It Looks From an Airplane

1920s

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That’s a really long title, but this is an awesome old photograph of Washington, from the air, taken on August 29th, 1924.

Washington, DC from the air in 1924

READ: Photo of Hyattsville Hardware in 1940

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

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Best of Ghosts of DC

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