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

Published August 3, 2014

Posted in Faces & Places of Yesterday
and tagged 1920s

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

Columbia Hospital

Source: Library of Congress

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