Great Old Photos of Capitol’s East and West Fronts

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

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

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

Tysons Corner or Tysons used to be called Peach Grove. William Tyson owned a farm west of DC which would become the site of a major shopping mall.

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

We’re coming up on the 200th anniversary of the Burning of Washington. On the 100th anniversary, the Washington Times wrote a long retrospect on what

Check this old photo out. It was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston around the turn of the 20th century. Source: Library of Congress

Interesting … it appears that property in Shaw and Mt. Vernon square is worth three to four times more that in Dupont Circle. This is

Okay, that’s probably not what’s happening in this photo, but that title probably piqued your interest. It is a bizarre photo, nonetheless and we felt

Here’s a page from the real estate section of the Sunday Washington Times on June 7th, 1908.

This is a really interesting film that we found at the National Archives. It was made by the Ford Motor Company in 1922. Source: U.S.

This is a guest post by John (from The Lion of Anacostia), cross-posted here. For black newspaper boys holding their street corners throughout downtown Washington, on Thursday January 13,