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Exploring Analoston Island: A Georgetown University Visit

Explore Analoston Island with Georgetown University Library. Discover the beauty and history of this unique island with photos and resources from the university's archives.
Richard Nixon at the Washington Senators versus the New York Yankees baseball game on Opening Day. 4/6/69.
Photo shows a horse-drawn sleigh carrying what may be Melinda and Elise Painter across 14th St. at F St. in front of the Ebbitt House hotel. The modest buildings to the right of the grand hotel housed Newspaper Row, and just across the street at number 501 was Painter's office as Washington correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. (Source: Ison article on Painter, 1990)

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Analoston Island
Analoston Island

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