D.C. Cab Fares in 1947

Why are these men sweeping the South Lawn? I have no idea. This photo was taken some time in the 1920s. Actually, just kidding. Those

Check this out. This is an interesting find. It’s a simplified driving map of the city for tourists trying to get around the popular sites

If you drive to work downtown and live somewhere up in Northwest D.C., you might be one of the thousands of people who drive down

We wrote some posts about The Beatles a long time ago, like this one about their first concert and this one about them playing D.C.

This is a photo of Thomas Circle in April of 1943. Don’t forget to check out this post on how the circle looked in 1920,

Here’s an interesting proposal for the Southside Freeway in Arlington, which never came to be. This graphic is from The Washington Post printed on October 7th,

This one is a little spooky with the way he’s looking at you. This is a photo of Harlan Randall of the Washington Opera and

This is such a cool shot of the Lincoln Memorial only a few years after it was dedicated (with Robert Todd Lincoln in attendance).

Obviously, our national library is not at Judiciary Square, but before we committed to building the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill, there were some

This is awesome. This was only two years ago, but this is history that we all remember. It is one of those performances that will

We posted a cool old rural map of Tenleytown a short while back. Here’s a map from the same group, showing Anacostia back in 1892.

Check this sweet map out. The whole area is really undeveloped, and the streets still have the old names (read about the name changes). Share