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Oh, You Nationals! Keep It Up, Boys!

1910s, baseball, Washington Nationals

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What a fun old print from The Washington Times printed on June 18th, 1912.

Washington Nationals 1912

READ: Incredible Photo of the Old Tunnicliff Hotel

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The President's 40-horsepower White Model M steam-powered touring car. March 1909. Photographed on the White House grounds in the early days of the Taft administration. In the back is the State Department, now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. George Grantham Bain Collection.

U.S. Senate Imposes 50 Percent Tariff on Foreign Cars

Riots of ’68: “We Have to Finish What He Worked So Hard For”

Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Bruce Springsteen concert at the University of Maryland in 1973

Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Bruce Springsteen at the University of Maryland

Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar. Photo credit: Jennifer Kolansky

If Walls Could Talk: Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar

1909 map of the Palisades

Great 1909 Map of the Palisades

1072 Thomas Jefferson St. NW

Then and Now: Thomas Jefferson Street in Georgetown

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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

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

Anti-Saloon League slogan

Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours

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Best of Ghosts of DC

Henry Bacon’s Competition Proposal for a Monument to Abraham Lincoln, 1912

Other Proposed Designs for the Lincoln Memorial

Drunk Guy Falls Off Key Bridge Railing

Rock Creek Parkway

1886 Plan to Fill In and Build Over Rock Creek

February 27, 1923. "Miss Alice Reighly, 1409 Harvard Street, president of Anti-Flirt Club, which has just been organized in Washington, D.C., and will launch an 'Anti-Flirt Week' beginning March 4. The club is composed of young women and girls who have been embarrassed by men in automobiles and on street corners." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. (Shorpy)

Anti-Flirt Club: Don’t Undress Me With Your Eyes

Nov 1982 | Crews work to complete the building of the tunnel near Forest Glen Station.

Vintage Washington Metro Construction Photos

Map of Original Land Owners in Washington City

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