{"id":33604,"date":"2022-02-01T21:54:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T02:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33604"},"modified":"2022-02-05T14:03:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T19:03:02","slug":"anniversaries-and-old-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33604","title":{"rendered":"Anniversaries and Old Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diamond Comic Distributors celebrated its 40th-anniversary today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, even though the office doesn&#8217;t have many people working out of it right now due to COVID, the office was decorated for the day with signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220131_135656.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33602\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was even a banner at the main entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220201_141656.jpg\" alt=\"Two well-endowed super-heroes.\" class=\"wp-image-33601\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hadn&#8217;t been out the doors into the main lobby since March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been with Diamond for almost fifteen of those forty years, but Diamond has been a part of my life since 1991.  I still have two Diamond shipping boxes from then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy anniversary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-primary-background-color has-primary-color\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, I saw this on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What an incredible 360-degree panorama of Washington from 1886. This image was taken from the top of the Smithsonian Castle. Don&#39;t miss it! | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReRun?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReRun<\/a> posted 12\/19\/13 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DvUKH8E4FH\">https:\/\/t.co\/DvUKH8E4FH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nruiy6xPZl\">pic.twitter.com\/nruiy6xPZl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ghosts of DC (@GhostsofDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhostsofDC\/status\/1488250572792905732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panoramic photos of Washington, DC in the 1880s!  I had to take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The link on the webpage didn&#8217;t work, but a search for &#8220;William Henry Jackson,&#8221; the photographer, on the Smithsonian website brought up the photos soon enough. (For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/siarchives.si.edu\/collections\/siris_sic_11648\">the second in the series of four<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was taken by the last of the four photos, which I&#8217;ve cropped and run through a website that colorizes photos, out of curiosity to see how it would turn out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/SIA-MAH-61686D-000003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33603\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colorized by AI, it actually looks pretty good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station is to the left.  That&#8217;s where James Garfield was assassinated.  It&#8217;s now the site of the National Gallery of Art.  It&#8217;s also where I happened to stand for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32362\">the Washington Nationals&#8217; World Series parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The roofed platform extending from the station is intereting.  The end of it, in the center of the photo, is roughly where I stood for Jon Stewart&#8217;s Rally to Restore Sanity in 2010 (and received a really funky sunburn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behind the station in the photo is <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalchurch.org\/history\">Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church<\/a>, with a truly impressive spire &#8212; 240 feet tall!  It was torn down in the 1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the right of Metropolitan Methodist, you can see the twin spires of James Renwick&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29079\">Trinity Episcopal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Capitol Building is at right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behind it, the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress is under construction.  The base of its dome is clearly identifiable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This dates the photograph to the mid-1890s.  Construction on the Jefferson Building began in 1890 and was completed in 1897.  The Smithsonian website suggests a date of 1886 for the photograph, but that&#8217;s clearly erroneous. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a cool little photograph.  I like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamond Comic Distributors celebrated its 40th-anniversary today. And, even though the office doesn&#8217;t have many people working out of it right now due to COVID, the office was decorated for the day with signs. There was even a banner at the main entrance. I hadn&#8217;t been out the doors into the main lobby since March<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33604\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Anniversaries and Old Photographs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[4846,1186,5049,4405,4071,4049,24],"class_list":["post-33604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-diamond-comic-distributors","tag-jon-stewart","tag-library-of-congress","tag-smithsonian-institution","tag-trinity-episcopal-church","tag-washington-dc","tag-washington-nationals","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}