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Places
Washington by street and landmark, as the cameras of the 1910s and 1920s saw it. Open a place for its history, what stands there today and every photograph we have of it, or find them on the map.
The ceremonial core
Pennsylvania Avenue
134 photographsThe avenue between the Capitol and the Treasury, where every inaugural parade, victory march and protest of the era passed.
The Capitol
140 photographsThe Capitol and its grounds, with the inaugurations of Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover on the east front.
The Library of Congress
9 photographsThe Library's ornate first building of 1897, across from the Capitol.
The White House and Lafayette Square
113 photographsThe President's house, its gates, the Ellipse and Lafayette Square, where the suffrage pickets stood in 1917.
The Treasury
42 photographsThe colonnaded Treasury Building on 15th Street, stage of the 1913 suffrage pageant.
State, War and Navy Building
23 photographsAlfred Mullett's enormous French Second Empire office building beside the White House, home of three departments.
Seventeenth Street
17 photographsThe marble institutions south of the White House, where the Washington Naval Conference met in 1921.
The Mall and the river
The Washington Monument
43 photographsThe obelisk and its grounds, the city's open-air meeting place for rallies, festivals and kites.
The Mall
25 photographsThe Mall in transition, from Victorian gardens and a railway station to museums and wartime offices.
The Lincoln Memorial
50 photographsHenry Bacon's temple rising on land reclaimed from the Potomac, from groundbreaking in 1914 to dedication in 1922.
The Tidal Basin and Potomac Park
65 photographsThe 1912 cherry trees, the bathing beach and the new parkland made from the Potomac flats.
The Potomac waterfront
15 photographsThe river at the city's edge: the Highway Bridge, boathouses, excursion steamers and the winter ice.
Capitol Hill and the east
Union Station
51 photographsDaniel Burnham's great terminal of 1907 and its plaza, the city's front door.
The Navy Yard
20 photographsThe Navy's oldest shore establishment, then a great gun factory on the Anacostia.
Anacostia and the river
12 photographsThe neighbourhood across the Anacostia River, its bridges and flats, and Bolling Field.
Downtown
Downtown and F Street
75 photographsThe shopping streets and offices of downtown, from the department stores of F Street to the Patent Office.
Center Market
11 photographsThe city's great market hall off Pennsylvania Avenue, demolished in 1931 for the National Archives.
North of downtown
U Street and Shaw
4 photographsThe heart of Black Washington, from Howard University to the theatres of "Black Broadway".
Griffith Stadium
12 photographsThe Senators' ballpark at Georgia Avenue and Florida Avenue, where Washington won the 1924 World Series.
Dupont Circle and the avenues
31 photographsThe circle and the mansion-lined avenues of the northwest, from Massachusetts Avenue to Meridian Hill.
The Knickerbocker Theatre
6 photographsThe cinema at 18th Street and Columbia Road whose roof collapsed under snow on January 28, 1922.
West of Rock Creek
Georgetown
28 photographsThe old port town on the Potomac: M Street, the C&O Canal and the bridges to Virginia.
Rock Creek Park and the Zoo
19 photographsThe wooded valley set aside in 1890, and the National Zoo laid out within it.
The National Cathedral
8 photographsThe Gothic cathedral begun on Mount St. Alban in 1907 and finished in 1990.
Walter Reed General Hospital
4 photographsThe Army's general hospital on Georgia Avenue, opened in 1909.
The Mall and the river
The Southwest waterfront
4 photographsThe wharves of Water Street and Maine Avenue, the fish market and the river steamers.
Washington Barracks and the War College
4 photographsThe Army post at the point where the Anacostia meets the Potomac, with the Army War College of 1907.
