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| 1943 Photo source: Shorpy Updated photographer's name 1/19/2012 Thanks Ryan Shepard Rare Kodak Ektachrome shots by Louise Rosskam show an architecturally and historically significant neighborhood the likes of Georgetown and Alexandria, VA. Much of the city's working class neighborhoods looked like this before attitudes changed about the working class. |
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| 1943 Photo source: Shorpy Observe the unique walk-thru between the two houses so one doesn't have to take the domestic trash through the house. |
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| 1943 Photo source: Shorpy |
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| 1901 map Once there was a place called Union Street in Southwest Washington. It had a collection of some of the oldest and finest examples of residential architecture and quiet neighborhood living. It was demolished and the grid was reorganized for the purest of intentions in the 1950's: "Urban Renewal"-a term that should be stricken from our lexicon. |
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| Today The same intersection. |
Photos by the great Louise Rosskam, who recently had a well-deserved retrospective at the AU Museum:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.american.edu/cas/museum/gallery/louise-rosskam.cfm