Beautiful captures of our Capital growing. I've never seen some of those pictures and glad Matthew Brady took these pictures.

All that I can say is AMAZING! Born and raised in DC and never imagined these scenes. Thank you!

Fascinating. The closest thing to a time machine.

Music is a beautiful match. That soft thump is as though we’re hearing the rhythm of the men (free and slave) build the epicenter of this young empire.

Just finished the book, Empire of Mud, secret history of Washington D.C. This video was a great way to finish the story and add realism to the whole episode, Thanks

Nice Video! 5:13 On that date they needed gas machines to blow hot air into a balloon, so can we assume Congress was not in session that day?

Masterfully presented. Top quality work, brilliant editing.

Excellent. It's also nice when captions don't last so long that you have lost interest by the time the photo appears. Some video producers seem to assume that everyone has suffered severe head trauma in a car crash.

Imagine Washington DC back then with no roads cars or Traffic

This is amazing. The black and white photos make it look like everything was dreary but it wasn't. It was full of color.

The Capitol looks completely different before the rotunda was built!

Amazing photos and fantastic to see how Washington DC was. No road just horse and buggy. Great was to get around

Thank you for sharing

Another great video and you have an awesome community.

Simply AMAZING!!!! One photo has Dec 15, ‘57. 105 yrs to the day of my birthday! Remarkable!!! ☺️

Even Washington DC wasn't built in a day.... Amazing photographs in this video.

I've lived in DC for almost 30 years. It's amazing to see the building of these iconic sites that are still standing today. I only wish I could go back in time and walk these streets before all the barricades and fences were put up. I'd love to just walk up to the White House and gain automatic entrance-or the Capitol - and walk in any of the many entrances we can no longer use

I love these photos.and I love the music it goes with pics.

Incredible! Thank you.

This is so cool!!!!! Thank you!

Before the civil war joe citizen could walk into the white house and ask to speak to the president. The security there was terrible until lincolns assasination.

Be neat to see this video colorized.

Captivant ! Merci !

I was born and raised in PG county. These are amazing!

Great Pictures! Bravo!

Amazing soundtrack to match

Wonderful trip back in time!

Very interesting and informative. I work at the Capitol and have been there for 24 years. I learned a bunch of things from these photos, I did not know that the spot where they hung Wirz for war crimes as a confederate is where the Supreme Court stands now. It was also neat to see some photos of the streets surrounding the Capitol and White House and recognizing buildings that are still there today including some of the shops. Some of the houses that were shops in those photos are still storefronts today even.

Wonderful video, great photos of the building of key parts of Washington and I LOVED the music. What is the piece's name?

EXCELLENT PRESENTATION!!!!

I JUST FOUND THIS CHANNEL, VERY GOOD I LIKE TO SEE THINGS CONCERNING THE CIVIL WAR AREA, THEY DO NOT EVEN TEACH THIS IMPORTANT TIME IN OUR SCHOOLS, WHAT A SHAME, KEEP THIS IMPORTANT TIME ALIVE, ALWAYS REMEMBER THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH FOR THEIR SACRIFICE FOR WHAT THEY BOTH BELIEVED IN

All those people in these photos are long passed on. Glad these photos exist. It's like looking into another civilization that existed right where we are standing. My great grandmother was born in 1865 and lived until 1966. Probably one of the last people from that time.

Thank you very nice history

The photo at 1:48 looks like one of the very common "vanilla skies" photos one comes across where "construction" of these buildings are concerned. They've done so much doctoring/CGIing with these 19th century photos to keep their lies alive. Most of these pictures have men standing around, clearing posing for the camera, which was of course such a big deal then and people loved it and it showed. You see the horses and buggies/carts, and you just know they did not have the capability to construct these massive buildings that were made to last forever. The "great fires" that seem to have taken most of them down were not fires but some kind of directed energy weapons they already possessed at this time. You see a lot of proof of this in the photos of San Francisco, the "fires" and "earthquake" of either 1906 or 1908, I can't remember at the moment which year it was. But if you look at those photos and the condition of the buildings, and look around the area and see the pulverization laying about, it puts one in mind of what we saw in NYC after the "9/11 attacks". Just food for thought for those interested in researching truth in opposed to accepting the mainstream lies they are continually trying to force-feed us.

Not sure if it is "music" but the accompanying sound in the background is great.

Excellent

So interesting!!

The pic twds the end 14:14 its perfect the way everyone is positioned and the white house in the background

I was today years old when I found out that the US Capitol building used to have a completely different dome.

Old photos in general and film from WW1 are interesting to me. Richard in Dallas

Ya we have horses and buggies yet build stuff like this ,we must have went backwards because all we build now is boxes

The timing between each each frame is a bit too fast to read the text, absorb what it says and then examine the image that follows. So use the settings icon to slow the speed down and mute the music that plays so you can take it all in a bit easier.

So we redid the dome what about the rest

Did anyone else notice that the Bonnie Blue Flag song, a confederate song, was playing in the background during the lincoln photos?

Great collection of photos, what I can’t understand is why did they build all these gigantic buildings but didn’t think twice to pave the streets, why are they all dirt roads?

Many buildings look aged and dirty to be new. Fancy buildings everywhere yet dirt roads. They weren't even bricked. Weird to me.

The White House in 1859. Two years later Lincoln would be inaugurated and a couple of months later, the Civil War. Amazing photo, knowing what we know now.

Love history, thank you for your hard work. I just ask that you give a bit more time to read, thank you

Amazing that in 1863, during the battle of Gettysburg, only 84 miles away... there is photos of heavy construction going on at the Capitol building. I wonder if those construction workers could hear the sounds of battle on those hot summer days (Talking about cannons and such firing nonstop).

BTW, that Episcopal Cathedral also had a grocery store.

Where is Buchanan in his inauguration photo?

Very fascinating. (It is a pity that photography did not already exist in ancient Rome, for example.)

That view of the Smithsonian Castle is actually Murder Bay with the Smithsonian Castle as a backdrop. Murder Bay consisted of substandard and unsafe living conditions the poor and desperate men, women and children, loan sharks, illegal gambling games, sex workers, thieves, rapists, johns. Today that patch is called Federal Triangle. Rumor has it that the word "Hooker" came from a map of this area confining Civil War soldiers to one area for their low brow mayhem. General Hooker's map was labled "Hooker's Zone."

I would love to go prospecting on the Mall in front of the Smithsonian Castle with a metal detector (which I know isn't permitted). Imagine what you can find!

Wonderful old photographs!

it's like they inherited a large civilisation

Not enough time to capture and absorb the composition of the photos and the text. What's the rush? I wore out my space bar on this on.

@1:11 ...Castle? These structures seem out of place

Where is all people on the pictures???

No people, no smoke, no sky, no clouds, no wind or rain, nothing

Uh... Wow!

This one looks bigger then the new white house

Wonderful photos of our Capital's history! One thing I always wondered is how did people cope with hot summer days with all that heavy clothing, and no daily showers yuck! One final note... I am sure everyone of the people in these photos would roll over in their graves, if they saw how Washington has turned into money grabbing politicians who could care less what is best for the American people and keeping our country safe and prosperous!

I was about to like the video but then I saw how many likes this has.

What about the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators - 1865.

Thoreau was in his hut at Walden

bruh... put the captions on the picture. that way there's more time to look at the pic and you don't feel like ur reading a book.

no people

MY GREAT UNCLE NED HELPED TO DIG THE WINE CELAR FOR THE OUT HOUSE, EEER, I MEAN WHITE HOUSE. HE ALSO OWNED THE FIRST BROTHEL IN DC - HE WAS A RICH OLD BASTARD!

3:59...a little help from one of the children of the 'Greats! post mudflood 1810-12 or so..and with a GIANT's Memorial Now! 11:13 streetcar rails..The Greats Were The GROUND FLOOR Everywhere yes?

I wonder how these buildings will hold up compared to say, ancient Rome. I am guessing not well.

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Odio ese sonido de fondo ¿No pudieron usar musiquita americana bonita?

pierwsze zdjęcie coś nie tak z 8

Where are the people

Any1 with half a brain will realize these structures were already there. At such a time there was according to the historical narrative, a total lack of resource to build anything beyond wooden housing structures and brick.

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden remember these times.

the “statute of freedom” representing gross irony

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It doesn't look that different.

2:50 That is not a construction photo of that building. The building already looks very old and weathered and why are the bottom windows mostly covered by sediment? The actual bottom of that building is below the surface, this photo just shows the building being repaired. History is all a lie

I wish i was in that time. Not gifted to be an American in this lifetime

This music is nauseating to me for some reason.

1:46 fake

The “music” is totally annoying.

Loved the pics. Editing was poor. The written word was pulled down before you could read it.

Reaks of foreign investment, tavistock Institute and evil thievery.

Inheriting a city so take some pics

Digging shit out of the mud and patching things up. These people did not build these buildings from scratch which is why they look so aged already. Bullshit!!!

Where are the pictures big us actually building this shit

Very disturbing soundtrack

Wow you can see at 1:07 Nancy Pelosi pulling a wagon in her mid 40s

I wonder who built all of these Romanesque structures and Castles across America and what happened to them... it's pretty obvious that the statues surrounding them at that time, some of which remain, have absolutely nothing to do with the America we learned about in American History. They want us to pretend that the "construction photos" for a new dome on the U.S. Capitol building or a new roof on The Parthenon (in Nashville) depict the actual construction of these buildings which were "found" here by our "Founding Fathers" as they are called. Whatever was done here and being kept hidden is the reason they burn books, make up beyond ridiculous narratives for their official stories, set arson fires to all of the museums, bombed out the downtown areas of every major city with the so-called "Great Fire(s) of ____" in the late 1800s/early 1900s (some of them more than once), and it is partly why they have censored the internet into virtual non- existence. All photographs of the days of olde, as well as drawings, maps, and art, are a very valuable resource we could use to see some truth about what was going on at this time in history. Unfortunately, the older black and white photos can be very easily doctored, esp. on the screen, but there are many which have not been tampered with. People now will mostly believe anything they are told and will not take the time to see what can be discovered with a careful or often even a cursory review of old photographs, drawings, or art. I have been researching photos, etc., like these when I can find the time to for a few years now, and my findings have led me to believe that we have probably not been told the truth about much of anything related to our history. It should also be apparent to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear that right now, at this moment in time, we most certainly are being lied to and the people are deceived at an unprecedented level.

Worst sound track ever.

Interesting BUT you havent got time to read all the commentary ANNOYING !!!!

WARNING TO VIEWERS! This video is accompanied by a 14+ minute repetition soundtrack of some hip-hop beat. Be ready to activate your MUTE button.

photograph of the Smithsonian burning is a joke, it is all hand painted

You really think playing Confederate music is appropriate? The Bonnie Blue Flag? Really?

LIES LIES AND MORE LIES

Where are the HARD working 3rd worlders? Oh in their country's .