Teaching DC Neighborhoods

Wymer's DC is an interactive map which places the thousands of historic images of John P. Wymer onto Google Street View. Use this tool to immerse yourself in 1950s Washington, D.C. and picture the city as you have never seen it before. Wymer's DC was created as a way to view the Wymer Photograph Collection in a geospatial context and visually connect with the rich history of the nation's capital.

The collection-level identifier is SP 0052. Individual images are cataloged beginning with WY followed by a 4-digit number. Comprises about 4000 images of Washington taken by John P. Wymer, 1948-1952. Wymer divided the District into 57 areas and photographed sample blocks and important buildings. Collection comprises original hand-cut negatives; notebooks kept by photographer; scrapbooks with each page containing prints and typed captions. The photograph prints are captioned with location and date.

Map of D.C. divided into 57 areas, as designated by John P. Wymer. Wymer systematically photographed a selection of streets within each area.