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Check Out Foggy Bottom’s Columbia Hospital in the 1920s

1920s

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What a great old photo of Columbia Hospital taken some time in the early 1920s.

Columbia Hospital

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Source: Library of Congress

READ: Photo of Eckington Rail Yard in 1923

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