Skip to Main Content

NBMS Media Center: Historical Settings

Making smart choices about technology

Weblinks

All above photographs are from the Library of Congress collections.  Look for your historical site there http://www.loc.gov/ .

Rockville Railroad Station

Maryland Historical Trust
http://mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=231&COUNTY=Montgomery&FROM=NRCountyList.aspx?COUNTY=Montgomery

Maryland State Archives
http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/017000/017600/017665/pdf/msa_se5_17665.pdf

Maryland National Park and Planning Commission - Montgomery Planning.org
http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/historic/places_from_the_past/documents/p322_335.pdf

University of Baltimore Archives
http://archives.ubalt.edu/gbc/pdf/12-13-5.pdf

Bethesda Theater

Maryland Historical Trust
http://mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=1216&COUNTY=Montgomery&FROM=NRCountyList.aspx?COUNTY=Montgomery

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/16/AR2010061605100.html

Maryland State Archives
http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/018000/018000/018021/pdf/msa_se5_18021.pdf

Art Deco Society of Washington
http://www.adsw.org/buildings/bethesda-jazz-and-supper-club#ad-image-0

 

Old Stone House

National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc17.htm

http://www.nps.gov/olst/historyculture/upload/Old-Stone-House-Brochure.pdf

http://www.nps.gov/olst/historyculture/index.htm

Streets of Washington Stories and Images of Historic Washington, D.C.
http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2010/02/georgetowns-old-stone-house-washington.html

Tours of DC
http://tourofdc.org/tours/OldStoneHouse/

Glen Echo

A Summer of Change: The Civil Rights Story of Glen Echo Park

 https://www.nps.gov/glec/learn/historyculture/upload/Civil-Rights-Site-Bulletin.pdf

 

Maryland Historical Trust

http://mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=808&COUNTY=Montgomery&FROM=NRCountyList.aspx?COUNTY=Montgomery

Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, Inc.
http://www.glenechopark.org/history-glen-echo-park

Glen Echo – Cabin John Area History - Research from an individual local history expert
http://glenecho-cabinjohn.com/GE-03.html

http://glenecho-cabinjohn.com/GE-04.html

National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/glec/historyculture/upload/Then%20and%20Now-3.pdf

C & O Canal

National Park Service

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc6.htm

http://www.nps.gov/choh/historyculture/index.htm

http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/10cando/10cando.htm

Western Maryland Historical Library
http://www.whilbr.org/itemdetail.aspx?idEntry=6016

Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office

Museum

http://www.clarabartonmuseum.org

Washington

https://washington.org/find-dc-listings/clara-barton-missing-soldiers-office-museum

 

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/house-divided/post/clara-bartons-civil-war-office-to-become-a-museum/2012/04/12/gIQA5SR1DT_blog.html

U.S. General Services Administration
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/104263

https://gsablogs.gsa.gov/gsablog/2016/05/11/clara-barton-missing-soldiers-office-new-life-for-150-year-old-office-space/​

Washingtonian Magazine

https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/11/13/how-clara-bartons-missing-soldiers-office-got-found/

Octagon House

National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc22.htm

Architect's Foundation

https://architectsfoundation.org/octagon-museum/history/

Boundary Stones - WETA's Local History Blog
http://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2014/07/16/octagon-houses-tales-grave

George Washington Libraries: Exhibits

http://exhibits.library.gwu.edu/exhibits/show/digitaldc/foggy-bottom/octagon-building

Charles Sumner School

National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc58.htm

Washington Post Article

http://wpo.st/ejiI2

 

Cultural Tourist DC

 https://www.culturaltourismdc.org/portal/charles-sumner-school-museum-and-archives-african-american-heritage-trail

 

 

Mary Church Terrell House

 National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc66.htm

TLC
http://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/591

Social Welfare History Project
http://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/people/terrell-mary-church/

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/once-home-to-civil-rights-pioneer-historic-house-is-now-worst-on-the-block-in-ledroit/2014/02/15/83c031ea-8aad-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html

Library of Congress

http://loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0267/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/terrell/

 

 

 

 

Database Resources for Historical Settings

Find passwords on Edline in upper right hand column. 

Encyclopedia

Student Resource Junior

Sirs Discoverer