Tag: U.S. Census
Walter Johnson at 12 Years Old in 1900 U.S. Census
This is cool. We dug up a really rare U.S. Census record from 1900 showing the Johnson family of Humbolt, Kansas. Their 12-year-old boy...
1940 U.S. Census List of Residents in the Mayflower Hotel
We haven't done one of these "They Were Neighbors" posts in a while, and we stumbled across this great collection of U.S. Census records...
They Were Neighbors: Five Families on Corcoran Street in 1890 … and a Feud
If you're not a genealogy buff, you may not know this, but much of the 1890 U.S. Census was destroyed in a massive fire...
Three Stories from the Northumberland Apartments
Faithful and extremely patient GoDCer Jeff requests some time ago that we do a piece on the Northumberland, just north of U St. Our...
Walter Spangenberg of Woodrow Wilson High School Cadet Corps
This is a far more charming photo of Washington in 1943 than the mock execution being held on the grounds of Woodrow Wilson High...
1940 Census: D.C. Was Bigger Than Today, Housed A “Hobo Jungle Camp”
This is a guest post by Aaron.
Newspapers called it a "New Deal Boom." The Great Depression was coming to an end. The District's peacetime...
The Crazy Family Problems of Real Estate Man William Matteson
Initially, this was going to be part of the previous post about Cathedral Highlands, but it was too good. This deserves it's own post....
Three Things That Happened At Chevy Chase Circle
We haven't done a "Three Things..." post in a while, so let's go to the far reaches of the District, up to the Maryland...
If Walls Could Talk: Tivoli Theater Was “The Temple of the Arts”
You can't walk past the Tivoli Theater in Columbia Heights and not admire it, imagining what the surrounding streets were like in the late...
There Was an Opium Den on Pennsylvania Avenue?
You may be aware of the blight that lined Pennsylvania Avenue in the 1970s with the proliferation of sleezy strip clubs and porn shops,...
Children Across D.C. Left Orphaned by Spanish Flu
I was researching a couple of stories and I came across an article that was so sad that I had to share it with...
They Were Neighbors: Annie O’Connell and The Irish Block
Every time I see an old photo like this on Shorpy, I want to know more about the person staring back at me. Where...
Robert H. Muir: Manager of The Cairo
There were a couple of requests a short while back to do a post on The Cairo, the most famous residential building in the...
If Walls Could Talk: Smith Commons
I'm a little tardy with delivering this next "If Walls Could Talk" ... sorry.
The winner of our second IWCT poll is the H Street...
