United States--Officials and employees
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Marietta Crichlow and Linda Crichlow White interview, 2014-10-02
Item
Identifier: dcpl_220_006.mp3
Abstract
In this interview, Marietta discusses her childhood and her years as a young woman, when she lived in her family’s Le Droit Park home while attending Howard University. She also discusses her move to Petworth in 1950 with her husband and daughter Linda. She talks about what the neighborhood was like when they first moved there, before most of the white families moved away, and in later years when she was a member of the Block Club, which met monthly. She and Linda comment on how the...
Dates:
2014-10-02
National Park Service, National Capital Region Photograph Collection
Collection — External hard drive DIG_00033
Identifier: P034
Scope and Content
While the collection consists of images from nearly a century, the bulk of the photographs range from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. Images document the people, activities, and sites that make up a part of the National Capital Parks. Highlights include houses that were demolished to make way for the C&O Canal Park, Work being performed by Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration personnel, World War II defense installations, Carter Barron Amphitheater, and flood...
Dates:
1863; 1900; 1921 - 1961