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Alexandria City Post Office and Custom House

Published July 24, 2013

Posted in Faces & Places of Yesterday
and tagged Alexandria VA

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Here is a great old photo we dug up showing the Alexandria Custom House in 1918.

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Source: Library of Congress

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