Compare and Contrast: 1940s Aerial Photo of Washington and Google Map

Published January 17, 2014Updated December 20, 20211 min readby ghostsofdc

GoDCer Chris graciously offered to share this cool aerial photo of Washington, taken sometime in the 1940s. Compare it to the Google Map below.

5 thoughts on “Compare and Contrast: 1940s Aerial Photo of Washington and Google Map”

hadleyrille

January 17, 2014 at 4:57 pm

Wild. So 395 basically ended in Fairlington/Shirlington?
Jay Roberts

January 21, 2014 at 11:05 am

Wow, where do I start with old and new Alexandria?

One of the coolest sights is the old bed for the Alexandria Canal, running along side Potomac Yard’s western border.

Did that get used for the Metro line?
Stephen labas

January 23, 2014 at 1:20 pm

can you search for old photos in specific neighborhood?
thm

August 16, 2014 at 4:49 pm

So there WAS a bridge at T Street NE crossing the railroad tracks! I’d seen it on old maps but never in a photograph. (And occasionally, a new map thinks a bridge is still there too.)
DAR

January 26, 2015 at 1:22 pm

Can anyone identify the bridge over the Anacostia appearing between the 11th Street Bridge and the Sousa Bridge in the photograph? I can find no record of it anywhere else, except for a couple historic pictures, from about the same time, on the Navy Yard’s website. It’s misidentified as the Sousa Bridge in the caption, however.

Catalog #: NH 97842

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