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Photo of Old 1907 Steel Girder K Street Bridge Over Rock Creek

Tagged 1900s, Rock Creek Park

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Check this out. A much more bucolic and rural looking K St. over Rock Creek in 1907.

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1907 view of K St. bridge

Source: Library of Congress

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