Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0347Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of an outdoor market with multiple fruit stands set up, a large crowd of people are in the street/market, the Washington Monument can be seen in the distance. Above the image "17" is printed, below the image "29495 Cantaloupes in a Modern Street Market, Washington, D. C." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
29495
SCENE IN WASHINGTON MARKET, WASHINGTON D. C.
Strolling on down the Mall, past the Government buildings, at its intersection with 6th St., we turn N. on 7th and going nearly to Pennsylvania Ave., come to a place which no visitor to Washington should fail to see. This is the celebrated Mashington market, in whose 2 1/4 acres of booths and stalls can be found almost anything cecessary for the furnishing of a penerous table. It stands on ground which has been devoted to market purposes since the infancy of the city, on the site of the old Center Market, once known as the "ma'sh" Market because the section was originally part of the marsh lying betwen the Capitol and the White House. Washington is said to "go to market" in larger proportions than any other city. Since the days, long "befo' de war," (unreadable) Webster, resplendent in blue coat (unreadable) gilt buttons, white cravat, yellow gloves and varnished shoes, used to come here to personally select his perfect shad, and when General Windeld Scott, 6 ft. 4 in. in height, bargained for his "tarrapia" and his oysters by the barrel, it has been the custom for everybody who si anybody to do his own marketing. Wives of Senators and Cabinet members and leaders of the social world loiter through the aisles of the market with their baskets on their arms, selecting from the stalls and from wagons backing up to the curbs the vegetables which have been gathered in the cool of the evening and hauled into Washingotn long before daybreak. Negor "mamies" with red bandanas and clay pines, barter with all corners for radishes or canteloups or lettuce and as we watch the busy scene, as we do from here, with the stately shaft of we the Washington Monument rising behind the Market House we realize that Washington is not only a place of glandeur but also, (unreadable) entirely one of wholesome American (unreadable) life).
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