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B1 INDEX
City Museum
7th and I Sts NW
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
Greater New Hope Baptist Church
819-821 7th St
Goethe-Institut Washington
7th and H Sts.
Calvary Baptist Church
 

 

   
SEVENTH AND I STREETS, NW

 

7th and I Streets NW, as photographed by John P. Wymer on October 23, 1949. An empty hole has replaced the Woolworth Store and Goldenberg's department store is the site of the TechWorld complex.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 Wymer Biography
John Phillip Wymer (1904-1995) worked as a statistician for the National Bureau of Standards. But on weekends between 1948 and 1952, his hobby was to document Washington by photographing all sections of the city in a systematic manner. This article gives more background on Wymer's amazing work.