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- Beautiful composition
- Meh
- Amazing house!
- Robie House Roof(s)
- Move to Berlin and SAVE!
- There is an interesting novel set here.
- I Was In Berlin
- Pronunciation
- Shell of a Shell
- Never been there but
- BUR-lin
- Hand-made smokes
- Birthplace of Tupperware, or at least its inventor
- Pulp
- Remarkably unchanged in 84 years
- The church is still there ...
- Talk about a smoke show
- Electric Hansom Cab
- I wondered the same thing.
- The location in 2009
- Pill Pusher
- Roll your own
- Rugged and real!
- Civil War history
- Early EV?
- A Charles Purcell - Mama Cass Connection
- Uncle SAAM
- Obfuscation
- One Chocolate Soldier rode away
- Victor Marquis de la Roche
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Eight Is Enough: 1926
May 1, 1926. Eight-oar shell crew of Capital Athletic Club against a backdrop of the Key Bridge over the Potomac. View full size. National Photo Company.
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Stove Warehouse: 1865
The Petersburg, Virginia, courthouse in 1865. From photographs of the main Eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Glass plate negative, right half of stereograph pair. Photographer unknown. View full size.
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Capital Athletic: 1926
May 1, 1926. Washington, D.C. Eight-oar shell crew of the Capital Athletic Club on the Potomac between the Francis Scott Key and Aqueduct bridges. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
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He'll Knock Your Block Off: 1925
February 21, 1925. Washington, D.C. "William R. Whipp, Walter Edger Jr. and William Asher at the Racquet Club." View full size. National Photo Company.
Canoe Club: 1924
1924. Washington Canoe Club rowers on the Potomac near the recently finished Key Bridge and older Aqueduct Bridge. View full size. National Photo Co.
Margaret Zolnay: 1925
June 18, 1925. "Miss Margaret Zolnay." Our second look at this beguiling ballerina. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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Medium on M Street: 1937
December 1937. At 703 M Street in Washington we have Madame LaBey, reader of palms and dispenser of advice "on all affairs of life." She's clairvoyant, but ring the doorbell anyway. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon.
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Hello Trouble: 1937
December 1937. Midcity Cinema at 1223 Ninth Street NW in Washington, D.C. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA.
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Dee's Cafe: 1941
July 1941. "On the Main Street of Cascade, Idaho." View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
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Orphan Excursion: 1923
Washington, August 1923. "Star orphan excursion." View full size. 4x5 glass negative from the National Photo Company Collection.
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Furnished Rooms: 1937
April 1937. "Rooming house in slum district, Washington, D.C." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
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Margaret Zolnay: 1923
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Miss Anita Phipps: 1923
November 24, 1923. Miss Anita Phipps, director of women's relations for the War Department. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
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Two Forks: 1939
October 1939. "Hay forks. Northern Oregon farm. Morrow County, Oregon." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the FSA.
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The Simple Life: 1939
October 1939. "Another corner of Soper kitchen. Willow Creek area, Malheur County, Oregon." View full size. Nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange.
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