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All the buildings were two stories high and the 7th Street Wing and the 9th Street Wing were both flanked with two towers and a metal awning over the main entrances. Another metal awning ran the entire length of B Street NW and 9th Street NW. These protected shoppers visiting the outdoors stalls. For
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10:30 P.M. At Center Market. 11 yr. old Celery Vendor Gus
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A combined wholesale and retail stand in Center Market. Note the great variety and attractiveness of the products. See iced refrigerator box of
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a small fee, street dealers could place their stands outside, under the market canopy.
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Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings.
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in white and the Center Market (right) in 1929, prior to its demolition
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Photograph of the Farmers Line Outside of Center Market
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228:Detailed view of the Pennsylvania Avenue Side
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387:Six artesian wells yielding pure cold water
212:1836 cadastral map around the Center Market
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924:"New Web Exhibit on Center Market"
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143:National Museum of Natural History
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1217:Food markets in the United States
1139:Center Market Passes Into History
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220:General view of the market
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1018:"Center Market (1871-78)"
278:Washington Market Company
117:Washington Market Company
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