Days Gone By

Anthony Berger, Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad looking at an album of photographs, Washington, DC, 9 February 1864.

Source: Library of Congress

Harris & Ewing, Police call box at corner of D St. and 13½ St. NW, Washington, DC, 1911-1920.

Source: Library of Congress

Mathew Brady, President Millard Fillmore, Washington, DC, March 1849.

Source: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Mathew Brady, Seth Kinman reclining with his rifle, elk horns, bear feet, a bow and arrows, hatchet, and scalps, Washington, DC, 1864.

Source: Humboldt State University library

John Ferrell, Soldier inspecting a couple of “zoot suits” at the Uline Arena during Woody Herman’s Orchestra engagement there, Washington, DC, June 1942.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Ethel Roosevelt at the White House, Washington, DC, Fall 1901.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Archie Roosevelt with his pony, Algonquin on the White House Lawn, Washington, DC, 17 June 1902.

Source: Library of Congress

Quentin Roosevelt, son of US President Theodore Roosevelt, and one of his “White House Gang” playmates, Rosewell Flower Pinckney, in 1902. The White House Gang was made up of the young companions of the Roosevelt children who wrecked havoc on White House decorem, shooting spit balls at a portrait of Andrew Jackson and wearing fake monocles, among other childhood pranks.

Source: White House Historical Association

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Alice Roosevelt with her pet dog, Leo, ca. 1902.

Source: Library of Congress

Harris & Ewing, Silent Sentinels of Maryland picket the White House for suffrage while a young woman skates by, Washington, DC, 1917.

Source: Library of Congress