Wow. This one is amazing. We dug this up looking around Shorpy this past weekend. Washington, D.C., circa 1931. "Department of Commerce under construction from top of National Press Building looking down 14th...
The Department of Commerce's massive, beast of a building is bound by Constitution Avenue (why is it named Constitution Avenue?), 14th St., Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th St. Construction finished and it opened in 1932, at the...
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 electronic mail. Almost comical by today's standard, but probably thought of...