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Washington As It Was 
- Over 14,000 photographs by Theodor Horydczak are in this Library of Congress collection and can be viewed and searched online. They document architecture and social life from the 1920s to the 1950s, including views of commercial, residential, and governme
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The Riots in Georgetown, 1905 - Account of a strike and subsequent riots. Digitized full text (26 pages) of the original 1905 edition from Google Books. - http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC34902297&id=356GcowzN0UC    History of the Kennedy Center - History of efforts to create a national performing arts center. Text of 1980 article by Roger Meersman. - http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/History+of+the+Kennedy+Center.htm Portraits of a City - Thousands of photographs of black Washington spanning the 20th century, drawn from the archives of the Scurlock Studio. Images are searchable. From the Smithsonian American Museum of American History Web site. - http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/scurlock/index.html 20th Century Washington - Radio series covers the McMillan Plan, the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, race relations in the 1920s, the 1932 Bonus March, World War II, the desegregation of Thompson's Restaurant in the 1950s, 1960s freeway battles, the fight for self-government in the - http://www.wamu.org/programs/mc/special/20th_century_washington.php Garfinckel's: A History of America's Store - Memorabilia of the venerable Washington, DC, department store. - http://www.garfinckels.com/ The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC, 1920-1930s - Biographies of notable black writers, intellectuals, artists and musicians who were active in Washington during the period known as the "Harlem Renaissance." Includes bibliography and timeline. From the DC Public Library Web site. - http://www.dclibrary.org/blkren/ McMillan Commission Report (1902) - Unabridged text of the Senate committee report that proposed a plan for the development of the National Mall and central Washington that is largely responsible for their current appearance. [PDF] - http://www.nationalmall.net/resource/mcmillan.html Vietnam Veterans Memorial: District of Columbia - Lists those killed in the Vietnam War from the District of Columbia. - http://grunt.space.swri.edu/statewall/washdc/dc.htm Snapshots of a Washington Century - Recollections of 20th century Washington by four longtime residents, with photos. From the Washington Post. - http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/oralhistory/historyfront.htm Washington Century - Series of 26 articles from the Washington Post looks back at life during the 20th century, from the 1919 race riot to the "government girls" of World War II to suburban development. - http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/index2000.htm McMillan Commission Plan for Washington in 1902 - The Senate Parks Commission, chaired by Sen. James McMillan, developed a plan for the Mall and central Washington that is largely responsible for their current appearance. The site has extensive excerpts from the commission report. - http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/parkcomm.htm Duke Ellington's Washington - The black community in Ellington's time and a tour of the Shaw neighborhood where he grew up. Companion site to PBS documentary. - http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc City Beautiful: The 1901 Plan for Washington, D.C. - Brief article on the 1901 McMillan Plan to beautify the city's monumental core. - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/citybeautiful/plan.html |
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