Photo by Morgan Aronson | US Naval Observatory Library | 02.17.2021
Lantern Slide 31: Virginia Avenue and Foggy Bottom around 1940.
Photo by Morgan Aronson | US Naval Observatory Library | 02.17.2021
Lantern Slide 22: A drawing of Washington in the late 1800s.
Photo by Morgan Aronson | US Naval Observatory Library | 02.17.2021
Lantern Slide 21: A drawing of Washington in the late 1800s. The Patent Office (Later the Civil Service Commission Building and now a portrait gallery) was started in 1840 and completed in 1867. It spawned the Agriculture Department....
Photo by Morgan Aronson | US Naval Observatory Library | 02.17.2021
Lantern Slide 29: Virginia Avenue and Foggy Bottom. Photo labeled 1885. John Van Ness mansion and race track in foreground Mansion designed by Latrobe. David Burns’ cottage behind....
Photo by Morgan Aronson | US Naval Observatory Library | 02.17.2021
Lantern Slide 30: Virginia Avenue and Foggy Bottom after 1903, but before 1923 (when the Key Bridge was built).
Photo by Morgan Aronson | US Naval Observatory Library | 02.17.2021
Lantern Slide 23: A view of Washington City from Georgetown. Late 1800s.
Photo by Morgan Aronson | US Naval Observatory Library | 02.17.2021
Lantern Slide 16: Aqueduct Bridge and the C & O Canal, 1867. Open to canal traffic in 1843. It was first drained during the Civil War and used as a bridge. Rebuilt in 1888. Used until Key Bridge was completed in 1923. The Canal was begun in 1828 and completed to Cumberland in 1850. A total of $15,000.000 was spent on it....
Photo by Morgan Aronson | US Naval Observatory Library | 02.17.2021
Lantern Slide 17: The Washington Monument and Agriculture Building in 1876. The ponds near the base of the Monument were formed when the Washington Canal was filled and B Street, the present day Constitution Avenue, because a road of sorts. The cornerstone of the Monument was laid July 4, 1848. It had reached 174 feet when funds ran out and the Civil War was in progress. Construction commenced......
