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Winter Driving on Pennsylvania Avenue

Tagged 1920s, Pennsylvania Ave. NW

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This is a cool old photo that we dug up via Google. We found it here. It appears to be some time in the 1920s, looking down Pennsylvania Ave. towards the Capitol.

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