17 10 490 https://mallhistory.org/files/original/8f9ba54832b5650e7a6c41897e07942b.jpg ab9f5c70b9be5ca27ee2d7904adf5adc Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photographic print Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource View from the roof of the Smithsonian Description An account of the resource This photograph was taken from the roof of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/52">Smithsonian Castle</a> around 1886. The small building on the left between the Smithsonian and the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monumen</a>t is the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/466">old Department of Agriculture Building</a>, with its <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/324">formal garden</a> to the right spreading out across the Mall. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William Henry Jackson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Smithsonian Institution Archives. <a href="http://siris-sihistory.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!sichronology&uri=full=3100001~!11647~!0#focus">View original.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1886 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1860-1889 design & monuments environment ghost mall https://mallhistory.org/files/original/c0e5c3e97c92512791403eb6e7afac25.jpg 459291c848176d9e46c246b4f31bf2d4 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Gelatin silver print Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource View from the Washington Monument Description An account of the resource This photograph was taken from the top of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a> in 1942. The <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/52">Smithsonian Castle</a> and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/55">National Museum of Natural History</a> are visible in the middle of the picture. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/364">In the 1930s, the trees on the Mall were removed and rows of American elms were planted</a>, per the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/350">McMillan Plan</a> for the Mall proposed in 1901. This picture clearly shows the rows of young trees stretching on either side of the open middle section of the Mall. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cornell University Library. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/3678166249/">View original</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1942 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1920-1949 design & monuments environment ghost mall https://mallhistory.org/files/original/07226c38955eefdbbedb4a2c7365758b.jpg 6537c87027be9198edbe3c5c0a501ba3 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Winning Baseball Team on the Mall Description An account of the resource This team made up of workers from various garages in the city had just won a baseball game against the Employee's recreation association team when their photo was taken. They were one of many teams who <a href="http://mallhistory.org/explorations/show/baseball">played baseball on the National Mall</a> during World War II. The sport and location were so popular that at least one game was played every day, and off-duty servicemen as well as friends and family came to watch the games. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marjory Collins Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000057024/PP/">View original</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1942 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1920-1949 work & play https://mallhistory.org/files/original/f112cf5a2d5131edbf59ec6fc3b4a043.jpg dc34d41208d9884b89686a2397d3e767 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Conrad's boarding house was on the south side of Capitol hill and commanded an extensive and beautiful view. It was on the top of the hill, the precipitous sides of which were covered with grass, shrubs and trees in their wild uncultivated state. Between the foot of the hill and the broad Potomac extended a wide plain, through which the Tiber wound its way. The romantic beauty of this little stream was not then deformed by wharves or other works of art. Its banks were shaded with tall and umbrageous forest trees of every variety, among which the superb Tulep-Poplar rose conspicuous; the magnolia, the azalia, the hawthorn, the wild-rose and many other indigenous shrubs grew beneath their shade, while violets, anemonies and a thousand other sweet wood-flowers found shelter among their roots, from the winter's frost and greeted with the earliest bloom the return of spring. The wild grape-vine climbing from tree to tree hung in unpruned luxuriance among the branches of the trees and formed a fragrant and verdant canopy over the greensward, impervious to the noon day-sun. Beautiful banks of Tiber! delightful rambles! happy hours! How like a dream do ye now appear. Those trees, those shrubs, those flowers are gone. Man and his works have displaced the charms of nature. The poet, the botanist, the sportsman and the lover who once haunted those paths must seek far hence the shades in which they delight. Not only the banks of the Tiber, but those of the Potomack and Anacosta, were at this period adorned with native trees and shrubs and were distinguished by as romantic scenery as any rivers in our country. Indeed the whole plain was diversified with groves and clumps of forest trees which gave it the appearance of fine park. Such as grew on the public grounds ought to have been preserved, but in a government such as ours, where the people are sovereign, this could not be done. The people, the poorer inhabitants cut down these noble and beautiful trees for fuel. In one single night seventy tulip-Poplars were girdled, by which process life is destroyed and afterwards cut up at their leisure by the people. Nothing afflicted Mr. Jefferson like this wanton destruction of the fine trees scattered over the city-grounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mall in 1800 Description An account of the resource In this passage, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/118">Margaret Bayard Smit</a>h describes the Mall as it was when she first arrived in Washington in 1800, a plain covered in trees, shrubs, and flowers. By the time she wrote this passage in 1837, the banks of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/40">Tiber</a> had been transformed into the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/41">Washington Canal</a>, and the groves had been harvested for timber for the new city. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Margaret Bayard Smith Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <div class="csl-bib-body"> <div class="csl-entry">Smith, Margaret Bayard. <a>The First Forty Years of Washington Society</a>. Edited by Gaillard Hunt and J. Henley Smith. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1906.</div> </div> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1837 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-1829 building the mall design & monuments environment ghost mall https://mallhistory.org/files/original/7063b939797720719d1d5fe14dbfbcb7.jpg 0adba993add24b5269505868beb058d2 Object Representation of an object, e.g. plate, instruments, tools. Appearance Physical description of the object The elm is roughly 68 feet high with a trunk 35 inches in diameter. It has rough gray bark. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jefferson Elm Description An account of the resource This elm tree, called the Jefferson elm, is one of the original 300 elm trees planted on the National Mall in the 1930s. At the same time these trees were planted, Dutch Elm disease appeared in the United States and infected native American elms. Although many of the original National Mall elms succumbed to the disease, the Jefferson elm is resistant. Scientists with the National Arboretum and Department of Agriculture study this tree and have cloned it to help renew the population of American elms. One of the cloned trees, a propagar, was planted at the White House in 2006. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc1033.photos.362621p/">View Original</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 (circa, planted) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1920-1949 2000-present environment https://mallhistory.org/files/original/0e7d0d8eaaddeea28a67c447f867576d.jpg 0eefc7d3fea9334b9b8d6d50383b8343 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. To the Editor of The Post - Sir: May I thank Mrs. Charles Edward Russell, whose letter appears in the january 6 issue of the The Post, for her bitter outcry against the cutting down of our glorious trees to make way for more roads? The offices in which I am employed open on the Mall and during the five years I have been here I have rejoiced in a group of magnificent oaks just outside of our windows. One tree in particular blessedly shaded us through long summer days when the heat was intense. In winter its wide arms were held up to receive the rains and the winds from heaven so that its youth might be renewed with the coming of spring. Near the base of this tree I kept a shallow bowl filled with water for the birds and squirrels that play hereabouts. One day a few brief weeks ago a group of men came up to "my" tree, kicked away the bird bath, and proceeded to hack down the great, beautiful oak. It had not one single dead twig or branch upon it. And now its place is marked by a stretch of grassless, hideous earth, like a scar left by a sickening disease. Indeed I think the souls of men who permit the cutting down of our splendid trees are very sick. We who looked on at the slaughter of the oaks (a second one, not so nearly perfect as the larger tree, also fell under the ax) were sick at heart. Perhaps sentiment does lie back of people's grief for fallen trees, but can we afford to let go of our sentiments? Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper article Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Protesting Tree Destruction Description An account of the resource In the 1930s, the National Park Service moved forward with a plan to remove trees on the Mall and replace them with rows of American Elms. Katherine Rowland worked in an office near the Mall and wrote to the editors of the Washington Post to protest the tree destruction in general and specifically the removal a tree which shaded her office window and under which she had set a bird bath. Despite the opposition of Rowland and people like her, the trees were removed. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Katherine Rowland Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Washington Post Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01/10/1934 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1920-1949 design & monuments environment ghost mall politics & protest https://mallhistory.org/files/original/4a4064ac74e50401995f64a86326c357.jpg fc012bc4b3dcc997210ab3ed71093ad4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1919 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women's Baseball Game Description An account of the resource This baseball game was probably a match between women who worked for various <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/403">government offices related to World War I</a>. An organization called the War Camp Community Service organized sports activities and teams for soldiers and for government employees, including the many female employees who came to Washington during World War I. Teams were formed by women from the War Risk, Navy, and Internal Revenue Offices. In October 1919, these teams played a tournament just after the end of the World Series, extending the baseball season in Washington, DC. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection.<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007000412/"> View original.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/10/1919 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1890-1919 work & play https://mallhistory.org/files/original/29effc2b1b560b09ab35ccae0c64ec94.jpg 8e0168b02ede34a9c9fe3d913f7c9146 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Base Ball Tournament - The Athletics Win the Ball. - The match between the Athletic Ball Club of Philadelphia and the National of Washington, resulted in a signal defeat to the latter, as will be seen from the following score of the innings: [chart] This great disparity, this overwhelming defeat, is not easily accounted for. The National Club has good players, and although they could hardly expect to compete with clubs from Philadelphia and New York, where these organizations are made up in good part of young meant who have practiced the game assiduously from early boyhood, and where so many such clubs exist, that a crack club may be made up of picked men - expertest of the expert - still such defeat as that sustained by our national yesterday is difficult of explanation. The Washington boys showed some good play, but their competitors proved themselves so much their superiors at both batting and fielding that they bore off the honors quite easily. The Nationals took their defeat quite philosophically, and did not fail to observer Hamlet's injunction to see the "players well disposed." A supper was given to all the base ballers at the National Hotel last evening, where upward of two hundred persons sat down to a really sumptuous repast. When the "rage of hunger" had been daily quelled, the intellectual feast began. Mr. E. F. French, President of the Natioanls [sic], welcomed the guests of the occasion in an appropriate speech, and Mr. W. F. Williams made a formal presentation of the ball won by the Athletics, which was received by Col. Moore in behalf that club in an eloquent speech. Hon. Thomas Florence was called out by his old friends from Philadelphia, and responded in an impressive manner. Mr. D. S. Ward, Secretary of the Nationals, read the following toasts: 1. Friends and "fellow-pitchers," as well as catchers! Let us drink to the noblest of sports; may our Enterprise be ever as Active as now; may our Mutual love for our Athletic and truly National Pastime be as deep as the Atlantic; may our watchword never cease to be Eureka, and our motto Excelsior. 2. The Army and Navy: our defenders, afield, afloat, and at home; may God bless them and their work, and may a ransomed republic and a grateful people never forget either. 3. Our renowned and victorious guests: May the career of each be a "home run" of prosperity, and may their "scores" and their shadows never be less. 4. To the memory of our martyred President: the assassin's bullet but added immortality to fame. 5. His Excellency the President: Aided by the confidence and love of the people, may he complete the immortal work his illustrious predecessor left unfinished. 6. Farewell Toast - Let us drink to the safe return home of our most welcome guests - their only "home runs " that we cannot applaud. Col. Thomas Fitzgerald, of the Philadelphia City Item, made a happy speed in which he gave an amusing account of his first visit to Washington thirty years ago, as a member of a volunteer military company. The company were also addressed by Hon. B. B. French, L. A. Gobright, Esq., of the Associated Press, and others, while Messrs. Dixon and Lidicus, of the Athletics, added to the zest of the entertainment by singing some capital songs. The whole affair passed off int he pleasantest manner possible, and when it was over, the tired ball players retired to their beds much refreshed in mind, although fatigued in body. The Atlantics arrived from New York this morning, and the manly sport is to be resumed this afternoon. The Athletics left the city in the morning train for Baltimore, where they are to play a match with the Pastime Base Ball Club of that city this afternoon. The Atlantic Club of New York arrived early this morning and repaired immediately to Willards' Hotel, but they were subsequently conducted to the National Hotel by a committee to the Nationals, who had secured quarters for them at that hostelry. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Baseball Tournament Description An account of the resource The Philadelphia Athletics Baseball Club played the Washington Nationals Baseball Club on <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/319">the Ellipse</a>, just south of the White House, in a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/370">special game</a> on August 28, 1865. Thousands of locals, including President Andrew Johnson and his family, paid the $1 fee to sit in the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/359">newly constructed stands</a> and watch the game. The Nationals were defeated 85-12. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daily National Republican, Second Edition. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08/29/1865 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1860-1889 work & play https://mallhistory.org/files/original/d016c8bd272dbd89180c4070dfb76974.jpg 43e66fb05c264c9cd4a21aab1893d50c Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Cultural Gathering Event Sort Date For sort purposes only. Use YYYYMMDD with no spaces. If no MM or DD, use 00. For multi-day events, use first day. 18650829 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Baseball Tournament on the Ellipse Description An account of the resource In August 1865 the Washington Nationals Baseball Club invited the Philadelphia Athletics and the Brooklyn Atlantics to come and play in what was billed as a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/360">tournament</a>. The Nationals constructed stands for spectators on their <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/319">home turf</a> just south of the White House, the area we now call the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/315">Ellipse</a>. Over 10,000 people came to watch the games, even with an admission fee of $1. The Nationals faced the Athletics on August 28 and the Atlantics on the 29th, losing both games. The two out of town teams did not play each other. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daily National Republican, August 29, 1865, Second Edition. <a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053570/1865-08-29/ed-1/seq-3/">View original</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08/29/1865 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1860-1889 work & play https://mallhistory.org/files/original/9a3a70d7ae6c8aa7e2ddb580463a09cb.jpg 5022bc3574991ac8e2f5074700d7d4e2 https://mallhistory.org/files/original/7315ee50f9ac45055a11a8471d740c16.jpg d265c20ed000c8ec00cf4f8f4c42239a Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. General Interest in the Wounded—Their Numbers—Scenes at First Fredericksburgh—Return to Washington Hospitals—Campbell, Patent-Office, Armory-square and Others—Case of a Pennsylvania Soldier—Scenes After Chancellorsville—The Wounded Arriving at Night—June, July, &c., 1863—Death of a New-York Soldier—Winter of 1863–4 at Culpepper and Brandy Station—Return Again to Washington—Picture of One of the Great Government Hospitals—Spring and Summer of 1864—Wounded from Wilderness, Spottsylvania, &c.—Assistance from Home—Characteristic Scene in a Ward—Fall of 1864—Hospitals in New-York and Brooklyn—Government Always Ready and Liberal to Care for Wounded—Forms of Wounds and Diseases—Human Sympathy as a Medical Agent—The Army Surgeons, &c., &c.... COMMENCE WITH WASHINGTON HOSPITALS. Am now (January, February, &c., 1863,) in and around Washington, daily visiting the hospitals. Am much in Campbell, Patent Office, Eighth-street, H-street, Armory-square and others. Am now able to do a little good, having money, (as almoner of others home) and getting experience. I would like to give lists of cases, for there is no end to the interesting ones, but it is impossible without making a large volume, or rather several volumes. I must, therefore, let one or two days' visits, at this time, suffice as specimens of scores and hundreds of subsequent ones, through the ensuing Spring, Summer and Fall, and indeed, down to the present week.... THURSDAY, Jan. 29.—Devoted the main part of the day, from 11 to 3:30 o'clock, to Armory Square Hospital; went pretty thoroughly through Wards F, G, H and I; some 50 cases in each ward. In Ward F supplied the men throughout with writing paper and a stamped envelope each; also some cheerful reading matter; distributed in small portions, about half of it in this ward, to proper subjects, a large jar of first-rate preserved berries; also other small gifts. In Wards G, H and I, found several cases I thought good subjects for small sums of money, which I furnished in each case. The poor wounded men often come up dead broke, and it helps their spirits to have even the small sum I give them. My paper and envelopes all gone, but distributed a good lot of amusing reading matter; also, as I thought judicious, tobacco, oranges, apples, &c. Some very interesting cases in Ward I; CHARLES MILLER, bed No. 19, Company D, Fifty-third Pennsylvania, is only 16 years of age, very bright, courageous boy, left leg amputated below the knee; next bed below him, young lad very sick; gave the two each appropriate gifts; in the bed above, also amputation of the left leg; gave him part of a jar of raspberries; bed No. 1, this ward, gave a small sum; also to a soldier on crutches, sitting on his bed near.... Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers Description An account of the resource Walt Whitman regularly visited wounded soldiers <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/307">recovering in hospitals during the Civil War</a> in the Washington area. While consoling patients, Whitman also wrote down many observations during his hospital visits. This article publishes excerpts from his journal. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://www.whitmanarchive.org">The Walt Whitman Archive</a>, Editors Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price. <a href="http://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00200.html">View original</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/11/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1860-1889 military history work & play