Lmanian, Alexander, 1925-1996, Photographs of Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Connecticut 1964-1969. Courtesy the General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Like many of you, we at DCist love historic photography of our town. So when a reader sent us a link to this collection of rare negatives from Alexander Lmanian — a one-time photographer for the Associated Press — we couldn’t wait to dive in. Lmanian’s work in the collection focuses on the Washington of 1968, just before and after riots hit the city in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. The collection isn’t just riot photos, though — it also includes some cool images of people fishing near the Key Bridge, of the old Hennage Color Printers building in Chinatown, and of people gathering during the Chinese New Year celebration in 1968.