Posts the Ghosts of DC editors hand-pick from the archive. The strange, the vivid, and the ones worth pulling back to the front page after a few years buried.
Take a journey back in time with us as we explore the past with an 1892 map of the rural area around Tenley and a 1904 book about Columbia Heights. Learn more about the history of the area!
A 1947 photograph captures Kennedy and Nixon as young House colleagues, fourteen years before they faced each other in the presidential race.
This article takes a look at the 1975 handover of power at the White House, when Dick Cheney replaced Donald Rumsfeld as President Ford’s Chief of Staff. Read to find out more about the transition and the men behind it!
Three former US Secretaries of War, Jacob Dickinson, Newton Baker, and Dwight Davis, lived in three different Washington houses while serving in the Cabinet. All three buildings are still standing today.
Unforgettable sight: Nellie and Isabel Sedgeley with their electric car, c. 1905-1915. Check out this picture from the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Avid GoDC commenter Mike sent us a great photo of the Aqueduct Bridge in 1898. In the foreground, you can see the Connecticut Pie Company wagon, a great historical moment captured in time!
Peter Pan was a wire-haired terrier belonging to the personal secretary to President Coolidge. He arrived at the White House in February 1928 dressed in flapper galoshes. We are not making this up.
This photograph captures a 7-year-old newsboy trying to sell newspapers on Pennsylvania Avenue in April 1912, the same month the Titanic sank. The Library of Congress caption is worth reading in full.
Take a step back in time to the Petroleum Age of 1921 with this photo of the old Dome Gas Service Station in Takoma. Learn more about its location and the railroad tracks in the background at GhostsofDC.org!
