So What IS Capitol Hill?

• The Capitol (duh)

• Navy Yard

• Hill East

• H Street

• Gallaudet (sure, why not)

But once, it was this...

The Demon Cat

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The Phantom Wheelman

• “ordinaries” vs. “safeties”

• bobtails, traction, electric

• Who is public space for?

Page 34

Capitol Hill - A streetcar suburb?

The Single White Pearl

• Emily Edson “Olivia” Briggs

• Helene Nicholson

Page 60

There are likewise cheap modern ghosts galore, which are vulgarly supposed to haunt the scene of modern crimes. These serve chiefly to terrify the negro element...But these apparitions are probably only what theosophical science no knows familiarly as the Jiva, or phosphorescent aggregation of ethereal molecules necessarily attendant on the violent taking of a human being.

Washington Post 1893 Page 108

Sources

• Library of Congress Chronicling America

• DCPL Newspaper Databases

• John Alexander’s Ghosts of Washington

• and viewers like you!

What else am I missing? mimissing?