This is quite a beautiful photo of the Potomac River from 1898. I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to locate this photo, but if you have any thoughts, add them below in the comments.
Source: Library of Congress
A Rare Photo of the Potomac River from 1898
Does the number in the corner indicate the date? If so, would it be June 11, 1889 instead of ’98? What a lovely photo – almost like a painting.
Could be Arlington shore looking toward Hains Point
May be from the Watergate looking out to the northern tip of Roosevelt Island.
I would have thought the Potomac would be more polluted in 1898 (“What’s ‘environmental protection’?”) than today?
I belive you are correct. Taken from the shore line where Reagan National Airport is today.