Check Out Foggy Bottom’s Columbia Hospital in the 1920s

This is a great old map of the area surrounding Brookland in 1903.

Here’s a cool old advertisement for Connecticut Avenue Highlands, now known as Cleveland Park. Click on the ad for a larger version to read the

With the ridiculous rise in cost of living here in DC, maybe we should go back to the time of boarding houses. We came across

A Washington Post article from December 16th, 1928 celebrated the 50th anniversary of telephones in D.C. with a detailed history of its origins. The article mentions that there were 150,000 phones in the city, approximately one for every 3.4 people.

What an amazing photograph from the 1860s. Thanks again to the Library of Congress for this one. Source: Library of Congress

We love these awesome panorama shots. This one is from 1905. Make sure you click on it for a much larger version. Source: Library of

Hopefully we are earning a GoDCer for life in Ayanna by posting all of these Hillcrest-related advertisements. If you know the person that lives here,

Here’s an interesting drawing that we dug up. It shows the suffrage march line from March 4th, 1913. Source: Library of Congress

This is a guest post by GoDCer from Poolesville, Jack (the guy that tipped us off to some great stories, like the decapitated convict). On

What a great old shot of the Cuban Embassy at 2630 16th St. NW. Source: Library of Congress

Below is a fascinating old broadside that we came across in the Library of Congress archives. Here is the description … A broadside condemning the

I came across a very sad article in the Washington Post the other day. This is from September 2nd, 1906 and given that a large