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Dramatic Attempt to Assassinate President Truman in Blair HouseMar 29, 2022Traffic Photos From July 1936Dec 12, 2021Pennsylvania Avenue Toward the Capitol, Around 1921Mar 15, 201914th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in 1939: What Stood Before the Willard PlazaMar 6, 2019Exterior view of the 13-story Raleigh Hotel at the corner of 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, photographed by the National Photo Company between 1909 and 1923Raleigh Hotel: 71 Years on Pennsylvania AvenueDec 10, 2017The Evening Star Building and Downtown From Above in 1922Jul 10, 2017July 4th parade in Washington, DCJuly 4, 1919: Washington’s First Fourth of July After World War IJul 4, 2016Washington, D.C., circa 1931. "Fifteenth Street at Pennsylvania Avenue." Note the traffic lights, which made their D.C. debut in 1926, as well as the traffic-cop gazebo at center ("NO LEFT TURN") and streetcar switch tower to its left. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in DC, Circa 1931Sep 30, 2015Suffrage hikers arriving in Washington from New York on Pennsylvania Avenue, February 1913, with the U.S. Capitol behind them. Harris & Ewing.The 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade in Washington, DCMay 11, 2015
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