RSS FeedWayback VI: Downtown DC 1912 Style
Today’s Wayback Machine brings you an aerial shot of downtown Washington taken from the Washington Monument by the Haines Photo Company in the winter of 1912. This photo is just one portion of a panoramic shot taken looking directly east from the Washington Monument. It isn’t as high resolution as the photos at Shorpy, the 100 year old photo blog, but it’s fun to get that high up view and see how the times have changed.
What’s present? Center Market (now long gone), The Old Post Office, Union Station, Pension Building (National Building Museum), National Museum of Natural History (brand new at the time – it had only been open for two years) and lots of trees on the National Mall.
What’s missing? All of the Federal Triangle, National Archives and of course, the MCI Center.
If you want to see the complete panorama including the Capitol and the Potomac River/Washington Channel, click here. If you want to see the full panorama, go here and type in ‘b.e. view washington monument’ in the search box followed by pressing the ‘Go’ button.
Photo credit: Library of Congress – Panoramic Photographs Collection – American Memory
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the ronald reagan bldg behind the district building is VERY missing