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StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0379Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a raod with several large trees on either side, several buildings are visable through the trees. Above the image "38" is printed, below the image "32251 A Tunnel of Verdure; N. E. on New Hampshire Ave. from Dupont Circle, 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:
32251
LOOKING NORTHEAST ON NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE FROM DUPONT CIRCLE, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Dupont Circle, to which we have come by following New Hampshire Ave. from Meridian Hill Park, is the radial center for some of the most delightful avenues and streets of the older quarter of Washington. From the fountain in its center, a memorial to Admiral Samuel F. Dupont, U. S. N. (1803-1865), ten thoroughfares stretch away like the spokes of a wheel. the one befor eus is New Hampshire Ave., looking N. E. in the direction from which border its pavement are but examples of the 110,000 or more trees of many varieties which line the streets of the city, not to mention the thousands in parks, circles, squares, and gardens. Washington is said to possess more trees per capita than any other American city, and if its street trees were planted at the usual intervals on both sides of a boulevard reaching northward, they would extend far beyond New York.
It is always interesting to remember the unique conditions under which the people of Washington and the District of Columbia enjoy their street and park systems, as well as every other feature of their municipal government. The inhabitants of the Federal District have no right of franchise. They are ruled in every detail by Congress, which makes appropriations for all public expenditures, and governs through a Board of three Commissioners, appointed by the President. Among its other functions this Board controls the streets ofht ecity. But the Public Buildings and Public Parks are supervised by the War Department through an officer appointed from the Engineer Corps of the Army. Neither he nor the Commissioners, however, have any authority beyond the doors of a foreign legation, whose premises are the territory of the nation occupying them.
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