Tag: World War I

Check out this great old photo of 7th and Pennsylvania Ave. during World War I. Source: Flickr 

How cool is this old photo from 1917? The French, U.S., and British flags were flying from the State, War, and Navy Building. Source: Library...

Here's a shot of the British Embassy before the U.S. entry into World War II. The photo was taken four days after Paris fell...

What an awesome old photo of a U.S. Postal Service plane from 1918. Source: Smithsonian

Here's another great photo send in by GoDCer Michael. These two marines are sitting in front of Union Station, on the Columbus Statue as...

What a great old photo from World War I. These photos show Camp Meigs in 1918. Source: U.S. National Archives Source: Library of Congress  

Here's our next photo for "Pictures Tell a Story." It's a great old shot from 1918 of World War I soldiers motoring...

This is a cool photo from 1918, showing a tank rolling through Washington. Any idea where this is? Source: Library of Congress

Source: Library of Congress Here's a cool advertisement from World War I. This was printed in the Washington Herald on February 15th, 1918.

This is the front page of the Washington Times from Tuesday evening, July 28th, 1914, the day Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Source: Library of...

Shorpy always has great photos. You can spent way too much time digging through finding gems like this. The photo below is a scene...

Here's a powerful photo. The soldier looks absolutely thrilled to be back and hold, what appears to be, his baby. The baby, on the...

This is an interesting article from the Washington Times, dated August 8th, 1914, exactly 98 years ago today. World War I (i.e., the Great...

Hains point is named for Peter Conover Hains. That was easy. You would know that if you checked Wikipedia, so I'm not really adding...

The Chevy Chase post last week was quite popular, so I'll add another one for the neighborhood. I came...

This is an odd story from the Washington Times. The paper reported on August 11th, 1908 the arrest of a young five-year-old. Yes, a...

This is another haunting discover, much like the advertisement I uncovered for the Titanic (also, read about the notable DC resident that went down...

Here's an excellent photo from the DC Public Library Flickr photostream. This shows the Capitol Building fully lit up following announcement of the end...

You read that correctly. As in Napoleon Bonaparte ... that is, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte III, the great-grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother. Oh,...

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

I'm a dog lover. I'm a huge dog lover and so is my wife (Marley and Me was a difficult movie to watch). When...