HISTORIC PICTURES
FROM ROCK CREEK PARK, WASHINGTON, DC, CIRCA 1966
(All pictures courtesy of the
National Park Service)
These are pictures I scanned during
the course of the Rock Creek Park curatorial project. Click on
the URL's below to view the images; click the "back" button of the
browser when you are finished.
Chestnut tree (taken before the blight that killed many chestnut trees
in the Twentieth Century):
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_chestnut_1.jpg
Flood waters and flood damage from a flood of the creek in 1966:
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_flood_16.jpg
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_flood_17.jpg
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_flood_29.jpg
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_repairingflooddamage_43.jpg
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_repairingflooddamage_6.jpg
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_repairingflooddamage_7.jpg
Ranger showing school children animals native to Rock Creek Park, including a raccoon and a snake:
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_raccoontalk_1.jpg
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_snakedemo_2.jpg
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_snakedemo_3.jpg
(Note the integrated school class in this picture.)
Rock Creek Park stables, with the Duke Ellington Bridge in the background (note that these prints have aged somewhat):
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_stables_1.jpg
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_stables_4.jpg
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res339_stables_9.jpg
Gun emplacements at Fort Stevens (one of the circle forts that were built to defend Washington during the Civil War, adn the site of
the one Civil War battle fought within the city boundaries):
https://museumcataloging.tripod.com/res358_ftstevens_17.jpg
(This was actually scanned from a negative.)
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