Ah this is a super cool one. Thanks to much to Fred for sharing this find:
“I had the plaster taken down from my staircase wall of my home in SE DC a few years ago and found some old advertisements.
Did some research and was thinking of picking up the trail again. Here is what I know after sift through the archives. Perhaps your readers have more insight. There is definitely more of this on the second floor of the home, just have not uncovered it yet. (more…)
Thanks to Nick for sending from his 1928 Palisades bungalow. Nice find!
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Thanks to Susan for sending: “I found about ten newspapers from the 1940s under a linoleum floor covering in my rowhouse in Capitol Hill. Perhaps used as insulation or cushioning?”
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Thanks to Eric for sending: “Two matchbooks and what I think is a bus transfer from 1960. Found in the ash dump of my fireplace of all places, Petworth.”
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Thanks to Stephanie for sending: “In 2016 we dug out the basement of our row home in the U Street neighborhood. The basement was unfinished but did have a cement slab that was relatively new. The contractor broke up the slab and to dig down three feet. During this process, this jar was found under the slab, somehow in one piece! The markings on the bottom indicate that it was made in West Virginia in 1939.” (more…)
Thanks to Nick for sending:
“We found these in a hiding spot in the ceiling of our basement during a recent renovation. House is in Lanier Heights, and built in 1905. Guess one of the previous tenants has a bit of a habit. I haven’t been able to find any record of the pharmacy or when it closed. My family has been here since the early 80s, and it was gone by then.”
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Thanks to Emily for sending this super cool find from Mount Pleasant.
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Thanks to Jeffrey for sending:
“Not nearly as cool as that rolling rock bottle, but I found these two tiny bottles in the dirt in my backyard. No idea what they might have been used for, or what their vintage is. My house is an 1870-ish rowhouse, the first building built on its block near Garrison Elementary.
I cleaned ’em up as well as I could and they’ve been holding these roses for years now.”
Ed. Note: Old perfume bottles?
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If you have a photo of a neat find from your house or place of work please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail.com thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Scott for sending this awesomeness:
“Here’s a milk bottle I found last weekend when I squeezed into my ridiculously tight crawlspace to repair some holes. Shimmying my way out I passed by this sticking out of the dirt. From what I found, H.L. Alden was a milk dealer in the 1910’s-20’s based out of 211 10th St. SW. (more…)
Thanks to Ralston for sending:
“When renovating a bathroom in my apartment In Dupont Circle I found newspapers packed around a pipe. This article from one of those newspapers (still pretty crinkled despite my best, careful efforts) reports on the flowers sent to the family of John Hay on the occasion of his death in July 1905. Note the reference to President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt & King Edward VII. Research confirmed that my building was built in 1905 – and the pipe was still being held firmly in place by newspaper wedged in the wall over a century later!”
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