Greenhouses on Mall. USDA History Collection

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Citation

Unknown. “Greenhouses on Mall. USDA History Collection.” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. Accessed April 25, 2024, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/1079.

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Description

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.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.

Source

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.

Collection

Series VII. Photographs

Appears in Exhibits

USDA History Collection