Updated 9/6/2019 at 11:32
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Broadmoor. Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Harry M Bralove, and Joseph Abel. The Broadmoor Apartment Building,Connecticut Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Washington Washington D.C, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/dc0606/. |
Broadmoor. Library of Congress Broadmoor sometime after 1960. |
Park and Shop, ca. 1930. Library of Congress Park & Shop stores. Connecticut Avenue and Porter Street Washington D.C, 1930. [Approximately to 1940] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mpc2005003154/PP/. |
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Cleveland Park Branch Library, 1953. D.C. Public Library Archives. | Autowash 75c, south side of Park and Shop, 1940. Library of Congress Rosskam, Edwin, photographer. Service station on Connecticut Avenue. Washington, D.C. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, 1940. Sept. Photograph.https://www.loc.gov/item/2017769455/. |
Esso Servicecenter, north side of Park and Shop, 1940. Site of current Exxon station. Library of Congress Rosskam, Edwin, photographer. Service station on Connecticut Avenue. Washington, D.C. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, 1940. Sept. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017769465/. |
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Park and Shop. 1940. Library of Congress Park and Shop shopping center, -3523 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, None. [Between 1935 and 1942] Photograph. [Library of Congress]. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017769459/ |
Park and Shop, "Hard Times...", 1986. Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator. Park & Shop Shopping Center, -3523 Connecticut Avenue Northwest between Ordway & Porter, Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Washington Washington D.C, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/dc0605/. |
Dining Left, The Washington Post 1.21.31; Center, The Washington Post, April 2, 1930 |
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Post card, ca. 1931 | Manager's "Private Office" The Washington Post, January 8, 1931 |
Sunday Dinner The Washington Post, May 11, 1930 |
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Luggage Tag (ca. 1930s) | Postcard front (ca. 1935) | Postcard verso (ca. 1935) | |
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Original doors to now enclosed solarium. Possibly Apt 105 (Photo ca 2019) | Original doors to apartment from now enclosed solarium. Possibly Apt 105 (Photo ca 2019) | Matchbook Cover, ca 1930s | |
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Broadmoor ca. 1930. Photograph used by permission of cokinosgirl.blogspot.com | |||