COLORED MAID SERVICE ADS FROM A CITY DIRECTORY
Classified listings show numerous household help ads from 1920s Washington area. Domestic workers sought include general housework, ironing, cooking, nursing, and governess roles offered by white and colored women, with several entries giving addresses and phone references across 14th Street, 12th Street, and nearby neighborhoods. Many prospects promise good pay, steady hours, and references, highlighting race and skill variety in early 20th century labor ads.
Rooms For Rent and Laundry Work Ads Mix
Classified type listings for lodging and employment appear, detailing rooms for rent and laundry work opportunities. Numerous entries specify furnished rooms, day work, and colored women for washing or laundering duties with varying rates and locations around Washington DC.
Rooms for Rent With Board at Various Northwest DC Addresses
Numerous listings offer furnished and unfurnished rooms with board near car lines in Northwest Washington. Advertisements cite private baths, electric lighting, hot water heat, and use of kitchens, with rates from a few dollars weekly to monthly sums. Locations include 14th St, Mass Ave, Euclid, Columbia Rd, and many surrounding streets. some entries specify single or double rooms, gentlemen or private families, and proximity to census office or Bruns wick area. Numerous phone contacts and building names such as The Brunswick appear among the postings.
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Capitol
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Ontario Place
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Library
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Mount Vernon
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Government Printing Office
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Congressional Library
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Carnegie Library
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St. Postoffice
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Carnegie Libery
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Columbia Heights
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16Th ST
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Washington Circle
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Franklin Park
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Unfurnished Rooms for Rent Around Capitol Area
Numerous unoccupied rooms listed in Northwest and nearby streets. Options include two to four rooms per unit, with heat and gas, some with bath, light housekeeping, and private families. Prices range from about $8 to $36 monthly, with several near 20th to 8th Streets NW and avenues in Mount Pleasant and Capitol area.
Rooms Wanted by Good Tenant in Downtown Area
A bustling classified request page lists numerous rooming offers and requests. Multiple entries seek furnished or unfurnished rooms or suites with baths, heat, or board, targeting families, couples, single professionals, or government workers. preferred NW DC, downtown, or near libraries, with stated monthly limits and dates around September 15 to October 1.
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H. K.ne
Unfurnished Rooms and Board Ads in Northwest DC
A dense listing of unfurnished and furnished rooms for rent in Northwest Washington DC with options for board, utilities, and private baths. Various locations include 6th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 15th Streets NW and nearby avenues, offering single or multiple rooms, sometimes communicating or with private entrances, and several ads note proximity to streetcar lines or GPO. Some notices request couples, single professionals, or families, with prices ranging from modest to moderate monthly rates and occasional mentions of heat and free phone.
Royal Limited and Chesapeake Beach trains in 1910 rail notices
Rail routes describe the Royal Limited and Pullman service to New York with diner and parlor cars, plus schedules for westbound lines to Chicago Cincinnati Louisville Pittsburgh Cleveland Columbus and more. Chesapake Beach excursion trains list weekly, weekend and holiday times and district line departures with contact numbers.
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Union Station
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Lin
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New York
New Terminal
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Pullman Bartor
Bratier
Eanes
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Chicago
Cincinnatt
Louisville
PITTS
Cleveland
Columbus
Harederick
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Brstown
Tiekas OmMeea
New Taion
Tenet Omice
Information Bureau
Chesapeale Beach
Chesapere Beach
Paut
Y. Waters
Genrral Manater
New York Avenue
Lince
Florida
Railway Timetable Snippets From Early 20th Century Washington
A dense OCR montage lists rail lines including Atlantic Coast Line Chesapeake and Ohio Norfolk and Western Seaboard Air Line and Washington Southern Railway with schedules, stops, through sleepers and coaches. Includes travel routes from Washington to Charleston Norfolk Roanoke Winston Salem Knoxville and Memphis, plus ads for tailoring and telegraph-style notices.
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Norfolk and Western Railway
Washhington
New
Union Stationaliy
Norfak
Roanoke
Bristol
Winston
Norfolk
Virginia
Cincinnati
Louis-Chi'eago Berciat
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St. Loui
Pullman
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Bint
Carr
Lefiaville
Wert Bouyer
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Hot Springs
Chemprate
Ohio
Union Station
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Seaboart
Thro Coaches
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Abepers
Tampa
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Bir
New York Ave
B.A. Harwood
C.T.A
Phillips
P. A
P.ryan
G.poan
Portemouth
Washington Southern Railway
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