Digital History - Histoire Numérique

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Exterior of the historic Alexandria City Hall

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Exterior of Citizen's National Bank, established 1870

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Exterior of Corby Brothers Steam bakery. The business claimed to be the largest bread shippers in the US, with this specific branch in Alexandria producing 2,400,000 loaves a year.

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Exterior of Robert F Downham's house. In the late 18th and early 19th century Edmund Jennings Lee, a prominent politician and correspondent with George Washington, lived here. Today the home call the Lee-Fendall House, a historic house museum on the…

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Exterior of Edward Quinn and Sons' store. The grocery and liquor business handles only first-class goods.

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Exterior of the Alexandria's First Baptist Church, established 1803

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Exterior of Alexandria's First National Bank, established 1864

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Ad in the 1907 Alexandria City Directory for First National Bank

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Fishtown was a seasonal district on Alexandria's Wharf. A collection of wooden shacks and temporary buildings, fishtown housed a variety of fish-related businesses, such as catching, salting, packing, and serving. Fishtown was predominantly…

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""This painting by George Reid depicts women working in a factory. Of the almost 300,000 factory workers engaged in war production in 1917, approximately one in eight were women.""
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