I'm virtually certain the two towers there are from the Trinity Episcopal Church (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2008013840/">this one</a>), which was located on the northeast corner of 3rd and C streets NW.  The buildings in front would then have been along Indiana avenue, between 3rd and 4½ street [John Marshall Place].  The other road angling off to the left (you just see a small portion between the trees and the edge of the picture) would be D street.  The photo would have been taken from the City Hall, today the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and the trees in front would have been the bottom edge of the park the City Hall was located in.  The church, and most of those buildings, are today occupied by the Department of Labor building.  That angled stretch of Indiana Avenue no longer exists (though the the mirror section on the other side of 5th street still does), as the Department of Labor building sits on that entire area. - (lightly edited from remarks by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clindberg" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Clindberg">Carl Lindberg</a>, originally made at <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jmabel/Stereo_cards_of_Washington,_D.C." title="User talk:Jmabel/Stereo cards of Washington, D.C.">User talk:Jmabel/Stereo cards of Washington, D.C.</a>)
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Jarvis, J. F. (John F.), b. 1850 -- Publisher</div>
<p>Coverage: 1870?-1895?.
Source Imprint: Washington, D.C. : John F. Jarvis, 1870?-1895?.
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Digital item published 1-25-2006; updated 2-13-2009.
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