Earliest Photographs of Wash., D.C. 1843-1866 *Incl. Lincoln's Inaugurations March 4, 1861 & 1865

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3. Thank you so much for posting this.

I lived in Alexandria, VA, from 1969 to 1981, and all of these places are familiar to me. I will say that I had not realized how many of the iconic buildings pre-date the Civil War.

Then there's the Smithsonian. Only the Castle is in this. Since then, many other buildings have been constructed. I was a docent at the Natural History Museum in 1976-77. What I learned while becoming a docent sent me back to college, lucky me.

Oh, and back then, in the late 1960s into sometime in the 1970s, there was a cafeteria in the basement of the American History Museum which was fantastic. Real food. Cooked there. If time travel is ever invented, I'd use it for things like going back to visit the Smithsonian in 1968 or so.