1915 DCWashington a century ago
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29 places · 1160 photographs

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Each circle is a place, sized by how many photographs we have of it. Pick a decade or subject to see where the cameras went; tap a circle to see its pictures.

Decade
Subject
Potomac RiverAnacostia RiverRock Creek ParkGeorgetownCapitol HillAnacostiaThe Capitol140Pennsylvania Avenue134The White House and Lafayette Square113Downtown and F Street75The Tidal Basin and Potomac Park65Union Station51The Lincoln Memorial50The Washington Monument43The Treasury42Dupont Circle and the avenues31Georgetown28The Mall25State, War and Navy Building23The Navy Yard20Rock Creek Park and the Zoo19Seventeenth Street17The Potomac waterfront15Anacostia and the river12Griffith Stadium12Arlington and Fort Myer12Center Market11The Library of Congress9The National Cathedral8The Knickerbocker Theatre6U Street and Shaw4Walter Reed General Hospital4The Southwest waterfront4Washington Barracks and the War College4

Base map drawn for this site from U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 (public domain): today's streets, parks and water, with post-1950 freeways left out. The shoreline and parts of the Mall and Potomac Park looked different in 1915; see each place's “then and now” note.