SIX YEARS AGO. LEFT IN THIS DUMPSTER IN A BOX. AN ALBUM OF PHOTOS MORE THAN A CENTURY OLD. I DON’T KNOW, IT JUST IT JUST IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME. SO I TOLD MY HUSBAND, JUST HANG ON TO IT.

Her friends knew she loved D.C., so they gave her an old photo album full of old pictures evocative of the District. Here is a black-and-white photo of a woman in Meridian Hill Park taken some ...