About the Author

Images of America: Southwest Washington, D.C., includes nearly 200 vintage images that document a dramatic change. Archival etchings, maps, and photographs combine to illustrate early settlers, the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators at the U.S. Penitentiary, the famous slavery escape on the schooner Pearl, a thriving African American community, and the widespread urban renewal that demolished most of its physical history and the innovative buildings that replaced it. This is the 12th Arcadia title by author Paul K. Williams, a local historian and proprietor of Kelsey & Associates, an architectural history firm.