A view from the Washington Monument in the mid-1920s, showing USDA greenhouses on the Mall, in the foreground. This site on Constitution Avenue is now the location of the National Museum of American History. The Old Post Office Building is in the center, and Union Station is in the upper right. USDA History Collection has a copy print of this photograph; original is in the National Archives, NARA no. 16-G-324-2-4922-C.

Greenhouses on the Mall.
Series VII.1, Photographs, Box 7.1/1, file "from I.1--IX F. USDA Buildings File, Greenhouse on Mall." USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.

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