This wonderful old photo of Pennsylvania Avenue in 1957 shows President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth in an old Lincoln Cosmopolitan.
Source: Flickr user Dave Gelinas
And here’s another.
Source: Flickr user Dave Gelinas
Source: Flickr user Dave Gelinas
What an awesome candid shot of Bill and Hillary Clinton throwing a baseball in the Rose Garden on April 3rd, 1994. They’re practicing for the
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
Terrific colorized image of the White House from 1921.
UPDATE: GoDCer Jerry has correctly pointed out that this is not the Aqueduct Bridge. The National Archives has mislabeled this and it’s actually the Pennsylvania
We are digging up all sorts of great images on the Smithsonian’s site. Here’s one near Center Market with a view of the Old Post
That’s a really long title, but this is an awesome old photograph of Washington, from the air, taken on August 29th, 1924.
Here’s a cool old panoramic photo of Walter Reed Hospital from 1919. Click on it for a larger version. Source: Library of Congress
Great photo. Speaks for itself. Sadly, no larger version. Thanks Smithsonian.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but the extension proposed by Harry Truman was never built. He was
This is a beautiful photo of Donald Trump’s newest property. I hope he doesn’t f*ck it up and make it ridiculously ostentatious.
What a sweet campaign button from 1864! We dug this up on the Library of Congress’ site.
This is a sad story that we came across in The Washington Postfrom June 29th, 1908. John McCalip, 22 years old, an electrician, at the Senate
