Aerial View of Scott Circle

Happy New Year! I hope 2014 is a great year for you and all GoDCers … while you recover from whatever you did last night,

Wow, check out this amazing view. We dug up this gem on the Library of Congress site. The full caption is below. West-southwest view with

There were a couple of requests a short while back to do a post on The Cairo, the most famous residential building in the city.

Great photo. Speaks for itself. Sadly, no larger version. Thanks Smithsonian.

Here is a fascinating article we dug up in the Washington Post from April 8th, 1941. At the time, only Boston, New York and Philadelphia

This wonderful old image from the 1860s shows F St. near the end of the Civil War. The details are quite incredible when you click

Here’s a rare one. You’re looking at then-governor Clinton of Arkansas, and Georgetown graduate, delivering the commencement speech at Georgetown for the graduating class of

This is a photo I came across on Shorpy. It’s of three children, who happen to be the offspring of James J. Davis, the Secretary

What an amazing photograph by Mathew Brady.

GoDCer Bob sent in this photo of a man putting up new street signs for Missouri Ave. The photo is from 1946.

We once had a neighborhood called Herring Hill? True story. It was named for the fish pulled from Rock Creek, which, I don’t think are

This is an interesting shot of Teddy Roosevelt III, the grandson of President Teddy Roosevelt. He’s the scrawny kid on the right.