Tag: 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...

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...

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...

Faithful and extremely patient GoDCer Jeff requests some time ago that we do a piece on the Northumberland, just north of U St. Our...

This is a far more charming photo of Washington in 1943 than the mock execution being held on the grounds of Woodrow Wilson High...

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...

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....

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...

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...

You may be aware of the blight that lined Pennsylvania Avenue in the 1970s with the proliferation of sleezy strip clubs and porn shops,...

I was researching a couple of stories and I came across an article that was so sad that I had to share it with...

Every time I see an old photo like this on Shorpy, I want to know more about the person staring back at me. Where...

There were a couple of requests a short while back to do a post on The Cairo, the most famous residential building in the...

Smith Commons Curious about Smith Commons on H St. in DC? Check out our latest "If Walls Could...

Before Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals, we had Barkley, Morrow, Harrison, W. Whiting and H. Whiting The Whiting brothers, William and Harry, lived with their...

This photograph from 1908 caught my eye. It is of 28-year-old Mary A. Bliven (wife of Frank S. Bliven) and Bertha, her 7-year-old daughter,...

WOW. This one is awesome. It's a colorized photograph from 1924 and it shows cars lined up outside the District National Bank, Dupont Circle...

This next installment of "If Walls Could Talk" will be the Petworth watering hole, The Looking Glass Lounge. This is one of my favorite...

If you've spent any time in Rock Creek Park, you have seen or crossed over this bridge. Below is a little history on it...

This is a wild advertisement that I came across in The Evening Times (back then they'd publish the paper a couple times each day)....

I guess D.C. has always had bad drivers. This one is from December 7th, 1930. A dizzy clockwise circle of an automobile around Dupont Circle,...