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The image below comes from a page from the 1940 US Census:

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The page header from the Census is a poor scan. While I can make out the location as Washington DC, I'm unsure as to the ward:

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Can anyone decipher the street, either from the scan or deductively based on the information in the Census header?

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Have you tried looking on nearby census sheets? The same street name often appears on multiple sheets, where it might be clearer.

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I looked on the DC map near 8th and Underwood (some of the first streets in the enumeration district of your image) and spotted Rittenhouse street. I bet that's what that is.

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