Orville Wright’s Flight Record at Fort Myer in 1909

Here is a great series of three photographs from 1902. It depicts a parade of the Grand Army of the Republic going down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Doing a little evening photo surfing and came across this stunning one from the Smithsonian’s archives. The building on the left is the West Wing

This is cool. It’s the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of the area around Thomas Circle in 1888. The yellow buildings are wooden frame structures and

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

Below is a terrific photo taken in 1893. This is the intersection (today) of Wisconsin and O St. NW in Georgetown. The main building you

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 terrific photo that we dug up on Flickr. It shows Union Station under construction in the early 1900s. We also cross-posted this

In 1982, the United States Post Office launched a new system dubbed E-COM (Electronic Computer-Originated Mail) as an attempt to adopt the nascent technology of

You may be aware of the blight that lined Pennsylvania Avenue in the 1970s with the proliferation of sleezy strip clubs and porn shops, but

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

Do you know why it's named Constitution Avenue? There's an interesting story behind it which includes the state of Wisconsin.

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.