Photographs

Business Photographs

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Baum's Popular Shopping Place
"Popular Merchandise at Popular Prices, We Sell All Books Published at Cut Rates"; dry goods, cloaks, millinery, men's furnishings, and bookseller, 416 7th NW
Dec 2011 Susan Salus
Frankle & Co
"The Fair, 7th & H St NW, Housefurnishings"
Dec 2011 Susan Salus
Reeves Bakery, 1209 F Street, NW Jan 2012 Susan Salus
Thompsons Furniture Store, 9th & 10th & Penn Ave, Washington DC.
Frank Thompson is the man in front on the left, the small guy I think may be Arthur King, his nephew who lived with them and worked at the store. The fellow in the chair may be Frank's son Fank and the fellow standing to the right is his father Thomas Thompson, a gold watch maker from London.
Feb 2012 Jeanne

Places

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Early Pennsylvania Ave Mar 1999 unknown
Early Seventh Street Mar 1999 unknown

A few who lived or died here

A school picture is of my Great Uncle Frank Taylor Thompson of Georgetown (1878-1948). I am not sure which one he is or what school, but it is in DC. Feb 2012 Jeanne
BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887 Wikipedia
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1871-1887
Mar 2010 Wikipedia
BEALE, Edward Fitzgerald 1822-1893 Wikipedia
naval officer, military general, explorer, frontiersman, Indian affairs superintendent, California rancher, diplomat
Mar 2010 Wikipedia
CHURCHILL, Sylvester 1783-1862 Wikipedia
Inspector General of the U. S. Army
Mar 2010 Wikipedia
DOUGLAS, Frederick 1818-1895 Wikipedia
American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Mar 2010 Wikipedia
DONEGAN, John Dominic (1858-1934) Jun 2000 unknown
DONEGAN, John Dominic (1858-1934) Jun 2000 unknown
DRURY, Ella Elizabeth Donegan (1893-1972) Jun 2000 unknown
DRURY, John Samuel Jr. Jun 2000 unknown
GRIMKE, Francis 1852-1937 Wikipedia
a Presbyterian minister who was prominent in working for equal rights for African Americans
Mar 2010 Wikipedia
HENRY, Joseph 1797-1878 Wikipedia
First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Mar 2010 Wikipedia
Richard Wilson HENDERSON, born 28 Aug 1856 in Washington, DC to John Henderson and his wife Jane McCully Cumming Henderson. May 2011 Ann Chandler
Clara Bell HENDERSON BROOKE, and her twin Nellie HENDERSON SCOTT in the lower right. The others, the date, and the place are unknown.
If anyone knows the other women or what the occasion is, contact website coordinator
May 2011 Ann Chandler
Richard Wilson HENDERSON's daughters with his first wife, Esther Jane Ferguson Henderson. After Esther died, he married her sister Rosalee and had two more children, and then Rosalee died and he married Mae Woodin Hoover. Caption: Left to Right - Ethel Wilson Henderson, Elizabeth Cummings Henderson, Esther Louise Henderson, Clarabel Henderson, Eleanora Henderson; Sept 29 1894 May 2011 Ann Chandler
HURLEY, Mary Ellen (1858-1924) Jun 2000 unknown
WIRT, William 1772-1834 Wikipedia
Author, statesman, United States Attorney General
Mar 2010 Wikipedia

Pastors, Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church

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Rev. William W. Bennett, 1850 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. Leonidas Rosser, 1851 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. John D. Blackwell, 1852 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. James A. Duncan, 1853 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. David Seth Doggett, 1857 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. John C. Granbery, 1857 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. George H. Ray, 1861 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. John W. Boteler, 1863 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. William V. Tudor, 1866 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. S. Samuel Roszel, 1871 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. Alpheus Waters Wilson, 1873 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. W. P. Harrison, 1878 Wikipedia
Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. Samuel W. Haddaway, 1886 Mar 2011 NY Times
Rev. J. T. Wightman, 1890 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. Isaac W. Canter, 1893 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus
Rev. Jefferson W. Duffey, 1897 Mar 2011 Ray Gurganus