Frederick Douglass House in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., [between 1980 and 2006]
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Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Frederick Douglass House in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. [Between 1980 and 2006] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011632216/. (Accessed October 24, 2016.)
This file appears in: Anacostia Historic District
Anacostia Historic District
Initially incorporated under the name Union Town, Anacostia began as a working-class community removed from the city and dominated by Navy Yard employees. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the Union Land Association controlled theā¦