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City Beautiful: The 1901 Plan for Washington, D.C.
Brief article on the 1901 McMillan Plan to beautify the city's monumental core.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/citybeautiful/plan.html - | Travel Details & Reviews

Duke Ellington's Washington
The black community in Ellington's time and a tour of the Shaw neighborhood where he grew up. Companion site to PBS documentary.
http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc - | Travel Details & Reviews

McMillan Commission Plan for Washington in 1902
The Senate Parks Commission, chaired by Sen. James McMillan, developed a plan for the Mall and central Washington that is largely responsible for their current appearance. The site has extensive ...
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/parkcomm.htm - | Travel Details & Reviews

Washington As It Was
Over 14,000 photographs by Theodor Horydczak are in this Library of Congress collection and can be viewed and searched online. They document architecture and social life from the 1920s to the 1950s, ...
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html - | Travel Details & Reviews

Washington Post: Snapshots of a Washington Century
Recollections of 20th century Washington by four longtime residents, with photos.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/oralhistory/historyfront.htm - | Travel Details & Reviews

Washington Post: Washington Century
Series of 26 articles looks back at life during the 20th century, from the 1919 race riot to the "government girls" of World War II to suburban development.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/index2000.htm - | Travel Details & Reviews

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