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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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languages, including Arabic, Chinese, and the raised text for the blind. Dollsand toys enough to furnish half a dozen kindergartens might be taken from here,and, in short, it would be hard to find a path of industry or a region of pleasureor profit of which some reminder might not be found among this queer conglomer-ation of lost property. The City Post Office is open to the public at all hours of the day orCity night; and its furnishings embody the latest improvements in postal Post Office* methods. An Information Office is open during the day in the north-west corner of the ground floor.The Department of the Interior, whose principal building is popularly known as thePatent Office, manages internal or domestic affairs — the relations of our own peoplewith the Government. Hence the Secretary of the Interior is chargedInterior with the supervision of public business relating to patents for inventions. Department* pensions, and bounty lands, the public lands and surveys, the Indians,
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NEW GENERAL POST OFFICE.—Pennsylvania Avenue, Eleventh and Twelfth Streets. 110 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. education, railroads, the geological survey, the census, the national parks, reservations,and various of the public institutions, and Territories. The Secretary and his assistants have their offices in the great Doric-Patent Greek building, covering the two squares reaching from Seventh to NinthOffice. streets, between F and G, which everybody calls the Patent Oflace, because designed for and mainly occupied by that bureau.The Hall of Models is still a spacious room on the main floor, but the removal of thehistorical relics to the National Museum, and the fire of 1877, which destroyed 87,000models and some 600,000 drawings, etc., have left little worth looking at. The oflUcehas issued thus far about 600,000 patents, and its earnings have been far in excess ofthe cost of buildings and all expenses since its origin. Another prominent branch of the Interior Department is the P

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