The famous “Levittowns” began popping up in the northeast during the postwar period. When William Levitt brought his operation down to Bowie, MD, trouble ensued due to restrictions placed on the sale of the perfect suburban homes to African Americans. https://t.co/njlpKRL1gf …
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Clift's Automotive Service, at 20th and K Streets NW, was just one of many automobile sales and service stations located in the West End in the 1930s and 1940s. https://t.co/dY2xVXL4jT Clift's Automotive Service, at 20th and K Streets NW, was just one of many automobile sales …
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Individual landowners' names appear on the maps in this plat atlas of Allen County, Indiana, published when the population of Fort Wayne was barely 60,000 people. See who lived here in 1907: https://t.co/lOMzNaGsV9 https://t.co/58hWYsX6XQ Individual landowners' names appear on…
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Today in History - August 10 https://t.co/Kt5kHnA4FJ On August 10, 1821, Missouri entered the Union as the twenty-fourth state. Continue reading. Click here to search Today in History for other historic moments.
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The National Christmas Tree Lighting of 1973 lacked a certain holiday spirit. The combination of the ghosts of the Vietnam War, the energy crisis, and oh yeah, the Watergate Scandal, turned this white Christmas into a blue one. https://t.co/BU1gUC8g1N The National Christmas …
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📖 Happy #NationalBookLoversDay! Here, Wu Ting-Fang and three other diplomats read in the Chinese Legation room of Stewart Castle on Dupont Circle, ca. 1890. 📷 Legation employees reading in room of Chinese Legation on Dupont Circle. General photograph collection, CHS 03965. …
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In 1948, this map of Beijing was printed by the US Far East Command using confiscated Japanese printing plates. The map, Saishin Pekin shigai chizu, was originally created ten years earlier. Zoom in here: https://t.co/8Af9JPHLbq https://t.co/Zfw4KuiFyA In 1948, this map of Bei…
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