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U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Chairman of the Senate

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, shares a light moment with U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Scott Miller, commander, NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan and ... More

Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, chief of staff of the Army,

Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, chief of staff of the Army, met with Maj. Gen. Stephen R. Lanza, 7th Infantry Division commanding general, June 26, at the division headquarters on Lewis North, Joint Base Lewis McChord... More

Selected service members from Maine and Alabama gather

Selected service members from Maine and Alabama gather in Gettysburg, Pa. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, units from the two states who share the lineage of these earlier ... More

A fresh Maine balsam wreath adorns the monument to

A fresh Maine balsam wreath adorns the monument to the 5th Maine Battery on cemetery ridge as it stands watch over the Gettysburg battlefield July 15. Similar wreaths lay on every monument to honor fallen Maine... More

Olivia Aviles, from Murrieta, Calif., visits residents

Olivia Aviles, from Murrieta, Calif., visits residents of the Virginia Veteran’s Care Center in Salem, Va., with other members of Run For The Wall 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Tyson Friar, 16th Mobile Public... More

Ready for take off

Loadmasters assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, 455th Expeditionary Operations Group, Wyoming Air National Guard based in Cheyenne, Wyo., relax on the ramp of a C-130 Hercules transport aircra... More

At the final destination of Run For The Wall 2015,

At the final destination of Run For The Wall 2015, riders remember the family, friends and service members honored at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial. Run For The Wall is an annual motorcycle ride event from Ont... More

Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia, ceded by ...

Plan der stad Washington : bestemd tot de hoofdstad van America, en te...

Plan of the city of Washington : now building for the metropolis of Am...

Plan of the city of Washington : now building for the metropolis of Am...

Plan de la ville de Washington en Amèrique

Plan of the city of Washington, in the territory of Columbia, ceded by...

Plan of the city of Washington.

United States of Nth. America = Carte des Etats-unis de l'Amérique sep...

Carte générale des États-Unis de l'Amérique avec les plans des pri...

Map of Virginia and Maryland, constructed from the latest authorities

Plan of the city of Washington, seat of government of the United State...

Map of the country between Washington & Pittsburg refering to the cont...

Map of Virginia and Maryland, constructed from the latest authorities

Map of Virginia and Maryland, constructed from the latest authorities.

Map of Virginia and Maryland, constructed from the latest authorities

Fletcher, Elizabeth [Affadavit certifying that Elizabeth Fletcher is a...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Brooklyn, [Conn.], to Henry Egbert...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Egbert B...

Letter from Thomas G. Richmond, South Dartmouth, [Massachusetts], to A...

Thomas G. Richmond writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to his appreciation for the opportunity to do something for the slave. He says he was in Washington recently. He gives a dialogue of the slave markets,... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Brooklyn, [Conn.], to George Willi...

Letter from Nathaniel Briggs Borden, Washington City, [District of Col...

Nathaniel B. Borden writes to William Lloyd Garrison sending him money to pay for his subscription to the Liberator. He discusses the work of John Quincy Adams in Congress, including his "resolution directing t... More

Letter from Sumner Lincoln, Gardner, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd...

Sumner Lincoln writes to William Lloyd Garrison suggesting that he "issue & circulate a distinct petition to Congress for the repeal of the law licensing the traffic in slaves in the District of Columbia." Linc... More

Letter from Anna E. Cook, Hadley, [Massachusetts], 1839 Dec[ember] 25

Anna E. Cook writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to receiving the petitions to abolish slavery in Washington, D.C. she forwarded and her success in circulating them in Hadley. She writes, "The prospect wa... More

Map of the city of Washington in the District of Columbia : establishe...

Letter from Elizabeth Simpson, Bellefonte, [Pennsylvania], to Maria We...

Elizabeth Simpson writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to laboring alone for the anti-slavery cause. She says that it was just as well that the lecturers who came to her town did not try to speak. They wou... More

Letter from Elizabeth Simpson, Bellefonte, [Pennsylvania], to Maria We...

Elizabeth Simpson writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to laboring alone for the anti-slavery cause. She says that it was just as well that the lecturers who came to her town did not try to speak. They wou... More

Letter from Elizabeth Simpson, Bellefonte, [Pennsylvania], to Maria We...

Elizabeth Simpson writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to laboring alone for the anti-slavery cause. She says that it was just as well that the lecturers who came to her town did not try to speak. They wou... More

Letter from Elizabeth Simpson, Bellefonte, [Pennsylvania], to Maria We...

Elizabeth Simpson writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to laboring alone for the anti-slavery cause. She says that it was just as well that the lecturers who came to her town did not try to speak. They wou... More

Coverlet, 19th century

City of Washington.

Robert Douglass, dyeing and cleaning business, Washington, D.C.

[Studio portrait of unidentified man with long sideburns and wavy hair...

The tourist's pocket map of the state of Virginia : exhibiting its int...

Map of the state of Virginia Courtesy of Boston Public Library

BREAKFAST & DINNER MENU [held by] TREMONT HOUSE [at] WASHINGTON, D.C....

Scene in the slave pen at Washington.

Delaware and Maryland - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Map of Delaware & Maryland | Map of Delaware and Maryland Courtesy of Boston Public Library

City of Washington - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Colton's Georgetown and the city of Washington : the capital of the Un...

Colton's map showing part of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey & New York Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A new map of the state of Virginia : exhibiting its internal improveme...

Map of the seat of war : containing a map of the vicinity of Washingto...

Birds eye view of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Col...

Torn in Two: Three separately published bird's-eye views provide a continuous panoramic perspective of the southeastern United States coast, extending from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida. Together they highlight... More

The National Cemetery, rear of Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C. : Unde...

The seat of war : birds eye view of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and ...

Birds eye view of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Map of the Atlantic States, showing distances from Washington (in bee ...

DINNER MENU [held by] WILLARDS HOTEL [at] "WASHINGTON, D.C." (HOTEL)

Washington & its vicinity - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collectio...

Washington and its vicinity Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Topographical map of Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction

Bird's eye view of part of Maryland, Distr of Columbia and part of Vir...

Seat of war, Bird's eye view of part of Maryland, Distr of Columbia and part of Virginia Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Field of operations of the Army of the Potomac

E. & G.W. Blunt's corrected map of Washington and the seat of war on t...

Corrected map of Washington and the seat of war on the Potomac Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The country round Washington : the Chesapeake and the Potomac

Studio portrait of John C. Napier

Hall and Elvans' subdivision of Meridian Hill, Washington County, D.C ...

Portrait of three Chinese students at Howard University: Leon Assing, ...

Dr. Crumwell., Washington, D.C.

Map of the city of Washington - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Colle...

Burning of White House, 1814.

A spring night along the tidal basin in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.

The White House and executive offices, Washington, D. C.

The dazzling dome of the capitol on a rainy night, Washington D. C.

Abraham Lincoln. Daniel Chester French, Sculptor. Lincoln Memorial, Wa...

President Roosevelt at his desk, Stereoscope Card

A spring night along the tidal basin in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.

A nation's pride - Washington from an airplane

Looking down Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C.

Our answer to the Kaiser, Stereoscope Card

President's Mansion (White House), from South Lawn

Reading room of the congressional library, Washington, D. C.

The dazzling dome of the capitol on a rainy night, Washington D. C.

The White House, Washington, D.C., Stereoscope Card

The White House and executive offices, Washington, D. C.

Your friend, Jno. H. Smith.

Topographical map of the District of Columbia

Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of ...

Topographical map of the District of Columbia and a portion of Virgini...

New bond paper map of the city of Washington

Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of ...

Cemetery, Soldier's Home, Washington, D.C. U.S.A.

Post route map of the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, an...

Lottie Grimke.

Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed atlas of the world : map of Washington, ...

Map of Washington, D.C | Rand, McNally & Co's new handy map of Washington and vicinity | Rand, McNally & Co.'s business atlas map of Washington, D.C Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Mrs. Susan P. Reed

Endeavorers' tents and Washington Monument, Washington, U.S.A.

Post route map of the states of Maryland and Delaware and of the Distr...

Report of the National Women Suffrage Convention held at Washington, F...

The nation's capital : [Washington D.C.] - Vintage map, Norman B. Leve...

National American Woman Suffrage Association Delegate ribbon, NAWSA su...

Anne Fitzhugh Miller was a delegate to this Washington Convention. Button has image of U.S. Capitol

Scarborough's new county and post office map of Virginia, Maryland, De...

Post route map of the states of Maryland and Delaware and of the Distr...

Call for the Forty-Second Annual Convention of the National American W...

Summaries progress in suffrage in foreign countries and at home; reports travel and hotel arrangements

Washington D.C., Historic Individuals, Chief Sequoyah Statue in Capita...

SEKI Historic Image

Great Blue Heron

Great blue herons can be found in or near water where they hunt for fish and amphibians.

Map of Montrose Park and Surrounding Area

Montrose Park. A map of Montrose Park, or US Reservation 324, shows the surrounding area of Washington, D.C. The neighborhood park serves the Georgetown community, bordered by R Street to the south. It is betwe... More