I can get really focused on a specific subject (usually history or geography) and spend way to much time researching it. It eventually makes it in an article here for the greater good of knowledge. It will be full of spelling and grammar issues and some good soul will solve them and all is well.

I have a passion for Washington City as it was called at the time. I love finding amazing black and white pictures of the city and learning more about the lost parts, the demolished parts that the residents and tourists do not know about. My favorite period for DC: 1850s to 1950s.

Favorite Pictures

Some of my favorite pictures of Washington City, District of Columbia and Scouting discovered in my research:

Scouting

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  The fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America
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  1937 National Jamboree in Washington, DC
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  Scouts in 1913
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  Boy Scouts at Columbia Island in 1935
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  Boy Scouts at Hoover Airport in 1935
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  Boy Scouts at Hoover Airport in 1935
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  Boy Scouts in front of the Capitol in 1923

Private Buildings

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  Center Market between B Street NW (Constitution Avenue NW) and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
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  Northern Liberty Market on K Street NW
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  The Apollo Theater on H Street NE
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  The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station located on the Mall in front of the Capitol where President James A. Garfield was shot
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  The New Jersey Avenue Station north of the Capitol where the bodies of President Abraham Lincoln and his son Willie left the city on the funeral train to Springfield, Illinois
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  The National Capital Brewery Building in southeast Washington, DC
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  The Washington Brewery Company Building on Capitol Hill

Public Buildings

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  The Washington City Canal on the Mall in front of the Capitol in construction (1860)
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  Picture taken from the Capitol: The Botanic Garden in the front with the Washington City Canal, the Smithsonian Castle and the Potomac
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  The Original Department of Agriculture Building on the Mall
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  The Library of Congress in 1906

Union Station

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  Inauguration of the Columbus Fountain in front of Union Station on June 8, 1912 with President William H. Taft. The Library of Congress is in the background.
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  Union Station and a game of baseball
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  Union Station, the Columbus Fountain and streetcar tracks around 1916
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  Union Station in the background with the Russell Senate Office Building on the right looking from the south in 1922

Civil War

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  Washington, D.C. Park of Wiard guns at the Arsenal
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  The Long Bridge crossing the Potomac looking toward Alexandria, VA with General Daniel McCallum (with the beard)
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  Armory Square Hospital on the Mall
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  Men and gun of 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery at ornamental gate of Fort Totten

Panoramic Views