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.
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…
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…
""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.""