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Vintage photos of Washington, DC. Ordinary people on stoops, sidewalks, and streetcars. Faces and corners of a city most of us would no longer recognize.

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Eight officials and officers at three firing booths in the Treasury basement range.The Shooting Range Beneath the Treasury Building3 min readAbout 20 young men in sleeveless club jackets, some in sunglasses, posed together against a brick wallThe 1966 Pagans vs. Avengers Shootout at Arlington’s Lee-Harrison Safeway6 min readBest OfEpisodeArcade Market in Columbia Heights (Library of Congress)The Arcade Market’s 1927 Plan for Rooftop Parking1 min read
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The Duo Who Built D.C.’s First Freeway: Archie Alexander, Maurice Repass, and the Whitehurst Story6 min readWisconsin Avenue, NW, south of O Street at "rush hour" (June 30, 1960).Washington DC in the 1960s: Rush Hour on Wisconsin Avenue5 min readWashington Daily News front page of October 13, 1926, headlined Ace of D.C. Detectives Slain on Wedding Day, with a portrait of Detective Arthur B. ScrivenerArthur Scrivener: Murder or Suicide in a Georgetown Alley, 192612 min readCook & Stoddard Cadillac at 1138 Connecticut Ave NW1 min readLewis Hine, "Red light resorts on Ohio Avenue near 14th St.," Washington DC, April 1912. Library of Congress, National Child Labor Committee Collection. Colorized by AI.Five Forgotten Murders in DC’s Murder Bay10 min readPresident and Mrs. Wilson (March 20th, 1920)Francis H. Robinson: The White House Chauffeur Who Drove Six Presidents3 min read
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