Tag: Department of Commerce
Incredible View of Commerce Department Under Construction
Wow. This one is amazing. We dug this up looking around Shorpy this past weekend.
Three Stories About the Department of Commerce Building
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...
Post Office Embraces “Electronic Mail” and E-COM
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...
![Washington, D.C., 1920. "Gripp, Mathew, [Nathan] Lahn, Troske -- Gallaudet U." Gridiron stars of the first college for the deaf, credited with inventing the football huddle in the 1920s as a way to keep its signed plays secret.](https://s3.amazonaws.com/ghostsofdc/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/27163855/SHORPY_29576u1-100x70.jpg "Gallaudet Football Invents the Huddle")
