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Fall 2019 | Volume 31, Number 1-2
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Excavating a City Buried in Time
Two New Bird's-Eye Paintings by Peter Waddell
BY AMBER JACQUELINE STREKER
Follow along as painter Peter Waddell uses historical research and the 19th-century bird's-eye technique to imagine the city of L'Enfant's plan and also as it actually had developed by the time of L'Enfant's death in 1826. His two new paintings are reproduced on foldout pages, a Washington History first.
About the Eye of the Bird
19th-Century Prints of Washington, D.C.
BY ANNE DOBBERTEEN
An illustrated look into how makers of 19th-century bird's-eye views captured entire cities and how they marketed their works to eager audiences.
La Esquina/The Corner
Documenting the Latino Immigrant Experience
BY OLIVIA CADAVAL, RICK REINHARD, QUIQUE AVILES
Sociologist Cadaval, photographer Reinhard, and poet/activist Aviles interviewed and photographed and lived among the immigrants who gather in a streetcorner park in Mount Pleasant to play checkers and create a social community reminiscent of their home countries.
Horses in Washington
BY AUSTIN KIPLINGER
This excerpt from the late publisher's self-published memoir (2014) describes the author's adventures on horseback and as the head of the Washington International Horse Show and evokes a recent past at the intersection of official and local Washington.
The Murtagh Conspiracy
Politics, Journalism, and Corruption in Centennial Washington
BY MARK HERLONG
Follow along on a roisterous ride in Reconstruction-era Washington, as a crusading, anti-gambling newspaper editor takes on alleged police and congressional corruption.
Cornerstone Men
The History of the Early Freemasons in Georgetown
BY CHRIS BESMIR RULI
Freemasonry came to America with the first Europeans and their enlightenment values undergird the structure and values of America's government. Georgetown is home to the city's first masonic lodge.