Washington,D.C.,ca. 1860-1918

Washington, D.C., ca. 1860-1918
Title: Washington, D.C., ca. 1860-1918
Related Names:
Bryan, W. B. (Wilhelmus Bogart), 1854-1938 , collector
Date Created/Published: ca. 1860-ca. 1918.
Summary: Includes extensive coverage of downtown Washington, (NW and NE) streets and commercial buildings in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The U.S. Capitol under construction, flood of 1889, historic homes, views of Pennsylvania Avenue, business establishments, railroad stations, Rock Creek Park. Includes views of the drinking fountain on the Capitol grounds and general views of the grounds; aerial views of East Potomac Park (1918) and panoramic view north from the Washington Monument; Long Bridge; War Department Building (ca. 1873)); B&O Railroad station, Pennsylvania Railroad station, Union Station; St. Patrick's, St. Matthew's, Old Foundry, and First Congregational churches; ruins of the tower of the Church of the Covenant (1888); YMCA (burned in 1885); St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum (1901, at southwest corner of Tenth and C Streets NW); Riggs Bank (ca. 1890's, at Ninth and F Streets NW), and Palais Royale; Richmond Hotel, Willard's Hotel and Hall (1899), St. James Hotel, and Brock's Congressional Hotels; ruins of Lincoln Hall building fire and fire at Cable Power house; Old Medical College (Tenth and E Streets NW) and Columbian Law School building (416 Fifth Streeet NW); present site of Martin Luther King Memorial Library, as seen in 1913; old slave 'prison' between Four-and-a-half and Sixth Streets NW, rear of lot on north side of G Street (removed in 1899); Lincoln Park and Emancipation statue (1918); Alexander Shepherd home, Corcoran house, Tudor Place, Carroll house (1886), David Burnes cottage (1886, site of Pan American Union Building), 'Stewart's Folly' (1901, at Massachusetts and Connecticut Avenues NW); Old Metropolitan Club (later burned); flooded Pennsylvania Avenue at Ninth Street NW; Fourth of July parade (1903, at Pennsylvania Avenue and Eleventh Street NW).
Notes:
Arrangement: Arrangement Box 1: LOT 7077-BR Bridges; LOT 7077-CH Churches; LOT 7077-CI City Plans; LOT 7077-CO Commerce; LOT 7077-DC D.C. Government Buildings; LOT 7077-DI Disasters; LOT 7077-ED Educational Institutions; LOT 7077-HI Historical Events; LOT 7077-HO Hotels & Inns; LOT 7077-IN Industry; LOT 7077-JA Jails & Prisons; LOT 7077-OR Organizations; LOT 7077-PA Parks & Gardens; LOT 7077-PE Performing Arts Facilities; LOT 7077-RA Railroad Stations; LOT 7077-RE Residential Buildings; Box 2: LOT 7077-ST Streets; LOT 7077-US U.S. Government Buildings; LOT 7077-VI Views.
Photographers: National Photo Company and A.G. Gedney.
LOT title and other information from catalog card and Washingtoniana Photographs ... Library of Congress, 1989.
Gift; Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan; 1934.
Forms part of the Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan Collection.
Subjects:
Washington (D.C.)--1860-1920.
Facilities--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1920.
Streets--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1920.
City & town life--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1920.
Photomechanical prints--1860-1920.
Bookmark /2004667310/
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