balustrade

What a beautiful photograph... the flowers in the background match the young ladies dresses - great composition and color!!!! Love it.

I love how, even though this was taken over 60 years ago, those buildings look almost identical today.

glass window -- totally agree -- it's fascinating.

There's such a European look to the architecture and landscaping, I had to do a double-take to be sure it said this was D.C. The people in it are intriguing, too; I wonder whether they were models or actual servicemen and their dates? I like how the polka-dotted woman's right arm is motion-blurred, and how neatly the stripe-skirted lady's feet are pressed together.

I Love it, I love it! Look at the way those girls are dressed..

Oooh, another fire ladder! marked on the 25" as a Fire Escape. Trees now obscure this aspect in streetview

A set of fire ladders in Kingstown in the archive, and another in Monkstown

In this Bing bird's eye view, you can see that the long building with a skylight at right is the dead zoo.

Dating detail: swan necked lamp-post at left means after 1901 and tram electrification. No actual light on the lamp-post may mean it is during electrification works.

(Unlike many other streets, the swan necked lamp posts are still there in streetview).

whats on the lower left corner?

TJ Shutter speeds would be in seconds rather than fractions of a second so any movement will lead to ghosting but I'm sure you would have know that. The Google streetview is fascinating. Wrong part of the country for me to have any meaningful input.

My 2009 photo:

Gerry Ward I see the ballustrade in your photo so it must have been dismantled for painting or galvanising when the Google car went up the street.

Gerry Ward Very nice one Gerry. It just goes to show how little has changed in so many of our towns and country places in spite of all that has happened in the intervening years.