BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home)

DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home):

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1. LINCOT_970807_01.JPG: Soldiers' & Airmen's Home; Scott Building During the Civil War, the tall tower of the Scott Building were used as a signal tower by Union Army look-outs. The Home is located atop a nice hill in Washington DC and it provides a wonderful view of much of the city so it was an ideal way of communicating to the forts ringing the city. Legend has it that this fortress-like building was erected with ransom money that General Wilfield Scott seized in Mexico City during the Mexican-American War. If you look carefully, you can see that the name "SCOTT" still exists below the current name "SHERMAN".
2. LINCOT_970807_03.JPG: Soldiers' & Airmen's Home; Anderson Cottage The Soldier's and Airmen's Home (The Old Soldier's Home) was built between 1843 and 1852. It is the oldest veterans' retirement home in the nation. The Anderson Cottage was used as a getaway by President Abraham Lincoln. According to the plaque here, he revised the Emancipation Proclamation here in 1862. It was also used as a summer cottage by Presidents Arthur and Hayes.
3. LINCOT_970807_04.JPG: Soldiers' & Airmen's Home; Anderson Cottage Another view of the Anderson Cottage.
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1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
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