Washington DC Historic photos, documents, and people

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Washington, D.C. Children playing in the nursery at the United Nations service center while their mothers make arrangements for continuing their journey

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Washington, D.C. Members of a Woodrow Wilson High School sorority serving tea for their mothers at the home of their advisor, Mrs. Mary Spangler (right)

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Washington, D.C. At 7 a.m. on June 21st, the day before stricter gas rationing was enforced, cars were pouring into this gas station on upper Wisconsin

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Washington, D.C. Members of a Woodrow Wilson High School sorority serving tea for their mothers at the home of their advisor, Mrs. Mary Spangler (left)

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Washington, D.C. Mrs. James M. Landis, Mrs. Henry Wallace, and Mrs. Jesse Jones admiring gifts at the kitchen shower at the Walsh Club for war workers

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Washington, D.C. A group of student nurses who recently were admitted to the Red Cross reserve corps at a ceremony in the Pan American Union building

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Washington, D.C. The officers' dressing room at the United Nations service center where officers may shave and clean up without engaging a hotel room

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Washington, D.C. In the officers' lounge at the United Nations service center, a hostess introduces a young officer to one of the volunteer hostesses

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. People bring their junk to a retail junk yard in everything from a pushcart to a limousine