![“Compliments of Alonzo B. Jones Archts. [Architects]” [Inscribed photograph of an Architect’s Proposed Design for Library of Congress]. Alonzo B. Jones, ca. 1847–1907.](/pictures/thumb/145896_1.jpg?v=1547593627)
A rendering of the proposed exterior submitted by nineteenth century Philadelphia architect Alonzo B. Jones, for the building design competition for a new structure to... Read More
![[1851 Letter concerning a Legal Dispute relating to Payment of Republic of Texas Bonds, from Private Bank Corcoran and Riggs]. Corcoran, Riggs, 1798–1888, 1813–1881, William W. Corcoran and George W. Riggs.](/pictures/thumb/3725101_1.jpg?v=1536186548)
Texas Bonds and the Supreme Court. In the 1830s, General James Hamilton Jr., one-time Governor of South Carolina, and Texas loan commissioner, loaned money to... Read More
An odd case, Thomas Turner vs. John Peabody, where the latter man accuses the former of “unlawfully converted for his own use three certain double..... Read More
Children’s book about the adventures of 5-year-old twins Roggie and Reggie who leave their home in California to go to Washington, D.C. with their father..... Read More
J. Russell Barr (1812-?) was one of only four jurors who voted for the conviction of John H. Surratt, a conspirator to assassinate Abraham Lincoln... Read More
This 1824 indenture concerns the settlement of a debt and sale of land by John Holohan of Washington, D.C. to Humphrey Peake, Collector of the... Read More
Proceedings of a Depression-era conference examining the role of the federal government to help African Americans in such areas as social and economic security, education... Read More
Manuel Carvallo Causten (1841–1878) inscribed his name inside this medical sammelband: “M. C. Causten, City of Washington, M[ar]ch 1858.” Three years later and after medical..... Read More
Molly Elliot Seawell (1860–1916), children’s author, short story writer, and novelist. Seawell contributed to such magazines as Lippincott’s, Youth’s Companion, and the New York Critic..... Read More
Norton P. Chipman, newly appointed Secretary of Washington, D.C. under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, here writes to Washington correspondent for the... Read More
![[Washington, D.C.] Chinese Lantern Cafe. Native Style Menu. S J. Chan, Chinese Lantern Cafe.](/pictures/thumb/3726696_1.jpg?v=1534362444)
Interesting Chinese restaurant menu from Washington, D.C. offering “Native Style” or authentic Chinese cuisine to Americans. The restaurant’s proprietor, S.J. Chan hoped: ...to introduce Chinese..... Read More
![[Thurgood Marshall Graduates from Law School, First in His Class, Cum Laude, in 1933 within:] The Sixty-fourth Annual Commencement. Howard University … Friday, June the Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Three [1933]…. Thurgood Marshall.](/pictures/thumb/3726645_1.jpg?v=1534362432)
For Baltimore-native Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, the nascence of his storied law career... Read More
![[1858 to 1862 Collection. Future Confederate Spy Aaron Van Camp of Washington D. C. Autograph Letter Signed from Naval Career Officer Commodore William Mervine]. Aaron Van Camp, Dr., 1816–1892, d. 1862, 1791–1868, Thomas B. Huger, Lieut., William Mervine, Rear Admiral.](/pictures/thumb/372327b_4.jpg?v=1534362287)
Dr. Aaron Van Camp: Future Confederate Spy, A Doctor Just before the American Civil War begins, 6 scrapbook leaves document the life of a D.C.... Read More
Lawyer, politician and financier, Fessenden would become President Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury in July of 1864. “His firm stance against slavery and its expansion..... Read More
In this good content letter pioneer aviator Walter Wellman writes in his position as a news journalist for the American Press Association (Associated Press, today)... Read More
