Washington Seen: A Photographic History, 1875-1965 – Fredric M. Miller Superprijs

Winner of the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History
A steam engine chugs along the Mall. The Knights Templar parade down an unpaved F Street. Workmen finish an arch at the new Library of Congress building. And the paddleboats are lining up for a concert at the Watergate Barge.
In Washington Seen Fredric Miller and Howard Gillette bring together nearly four hundred unique photographs from the Gilded Age to the Great Society. Throughout, the focus is not on streets and monumen…