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1910s

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Here is the lovely Old Post Office Pavilion, currently the Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Ave.

RU007355 - Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Smithsonian Institution Archives — Old Post Office Pavilion in 1919 – Source: Smithsonian

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