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2025-05-23T10:51:44.857661 image/svg+xml Matplotlib v3.10.1, https://matplotlib.org/ 2009 2010 200

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View of the Mall

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  • wclaytong said:
    This was taken from Arlington Experimental Farms rather than St. Elizabeth's Hospital. The tower of the Old Post Office is visible to the left of the Washington Monument and the Capitol to its right - an orientation that requires viewing from West of the Mall. Viewing from St. Elizabeth's (south of the Mall) the Post Office would be between the Monument and Capitol building. An image search for USDA Arlington Experimental Farm returns an almost identical view. The Pentagon was first proposed to be built on this site which is how it came to have a 5 sided design.

Washington Monument Under Construction

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  • Jim Hopkins said:
    That is just too cool!
  • rockcreek said:
    Many of the images in the E.B. Thompson collection are uncredited copies, and this is one of them - see: www.loc.gov/resource/pan.6a36324/

From Washington Monument

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  • Smithsonian Institution said:
    Nice to see these. Thanks for sharing!
  • sharon holdren said:
    Ever since I found that my relatives owned a house at the corner of 510 B Street and 10th SW, I have been fascinated with trying to find a picture of their house which would have been across from the Smithsonian. The 1900 census is the last the relatives are listed living there and I am wondering how to find out what came next for the house and that area which is now Independence Ave.

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