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Day: September 5, 2014

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Two Curtiss JN-4H "Jenny" airmail planes parked at the temporary airmail field at Washington, DC’s Polo Field, a small strip of grassy land between the Tidal Basin and Potomac River.

What Did U.S. Postal Service Planes Look Like During World War I?

What an awesome old photo of a U.S. Postal Service plane from 1918. Source: Smithsonian

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The jury that tried Millie Gaines in 1869 for the murder of a white man, and freed her on an insanity please. It was composed of six colored and six white men. This was the first murder trial in the District in which a mixed jury sat. Reading from left to right seated; 2, David Fisher; 4, the Rev. James D. Reed; 6, Leonard C. Bailey. Standing from left to right; 2, Charles Humphries; 4, John A. Gray; 6, Herbert Harris (The Baltimore Afro-American - May 4th, 1935)

First Racially Mixed Jury in Washington

Walter Johnson in 1939

What Did Walter Johnson’s Voice Sound Like? Listen To This 1939 Senators Broadcast.

1907 Baist map of Catholic University

1907 Map of Neighborhoods Around Catholic University

In late 1959 through 1960, the Capitol Dome underwent a significant repair and restoration effort and at the end of 1959 the exterior of the Dome was surrounded by scaffold.

The Capitol Dome Was Once Red

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

Other Proposed Designs for the Lincoln Memorial

1906 map showing the original boundary milestones of the District of Columbia

1906 Map of All D.C. Boundary Stones

D.C. slums in 1935

Three Tales From Hell’s Bottom

construction of Memorial Bridge

Incredible View of Memorial Bridge Under Construction

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Today's Featured Posts

Takoma Park Bans Guns, Dogs, and Weeds

If Walls Could Talk: Corte Salon and Arzo Boutique

Really Old Pre-Civil War Photo of Washington

What’s a Herdic Cab? What Did They Look Like?

1939 Tourist Footage of Washington

Arlington House (Library of Congress)

Why Is It Named Arlington?

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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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