Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of unidentified street showing child chasing horse and buggy." The signs affixed to the building at right identify this as (520? 521?) Grant Place. Moldy 5x7 inch glass negative from the D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of E Street S.W., north side, looking east from Delaware Avenue, showing a grocery store on the corner." 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of E Street S.W., looking north up First Street showing Baltimore and Mitchell Book & Job Printers." 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of 21st Street N.W., east side, looking north from E Street, with dairy cart at the curb in front of a corner shop." 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "Businesses on F Street N.W., north side, between 12th & 13th Streets, Nos. 1201-1219." 5x7 glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of E Street N.W., south side, looking west from 12th Street." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

        Back when you could leave your ice-wagon at the blacksmith's unlocked.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of E Street S.W. between Delaware Avenue & First Street, looking northwest." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of Seventh Street S.W., between I & H, looking west to northwest showing rowhouses obscured by tree-lined street and steeple of St. Dominic's partially visible." 8x10 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1901. "View of 13th Street N.W., west side, looking south from H Street." One-stop shopping for all your cooking and heating needs, as well as a trifecta of sidewalk bread lockers. 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

September 1901. Washington, D.C. "View of G Street N.W., north side on right, looking west from 13th Street." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

        Almost 40 years later, a view of the back yards last seen here.

Washington, D.C., 1939. "A view of backyards of apartment houses where both white and Negro families are living." 35mm nitrate negative by David Moffat Myers. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "An elevated view of rowhouses, probably in S.W., showing laundry hanging on clotheslines in back yards." Also Mr. Upstairs keeping an eye on Miss Downstairs. 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "Virginia Avenue at Sixth Street S.W., showing street and railroad tracks in the foreground near the Adams Express Co., and the Washington Monument in the distance." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of Grace Alley S.W., between D & E and 8th & 9th streets, looking west." Our first look at some of the approximately 200 circa 1900-05 glass negatives comprising the D.C. Street Survey Collection at the Library of Congress. View full size.

September 24, 1918. "5th Company, 161st Depot Brigade, Camp Grant, Illinois. Lieut. C.A. Geers commanding." Gelatin silver print by Hinkley Photo Co. of Rockford. View full size.