The WPA state guidebooks are quite interesting. The one for Washington, DC, is about the size of any three state guides put together: after WW II, George Washin

The WPA state guidebooks are quite interesting. The one for Washington, DC, is about the size of any three state guides put together: after WW II, George Washington University brought out a drastically edited version about the size of the standard state guide. I have a copy of the original, which is interesting (among many other ways) in having a map that shows older names of streets, streets not yet built in my neighborhood, etc.