200 years of federal offices in photos

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200 years of federal offices in photos

When you create a bureaucracy as large as the federal government, you've got to have a place for all those employees to work. From rural post offices to giant o...

Michael O'Connell@moconnellWFED

July 16, 2015 5:00 am

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Examiners at the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C., at work in their office in 1869.

*(Sketch by Theodore R. Davis)*

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