Old Patent Office

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Old Patent Office

 

National Historic Landmarked Old Patent Office Building

 

 

The building was used as a hospital during the American Civil War. Walt Whitman worked there and used his experiences as a basis for The Wound Dresser. The Bureau of Indian Affairs moved into the building after the war ended. Whitman used to work as a clerk for the bureau until 1867, when he was fired after a manuscript of Leaves of Grass was found in his desk.

 

Patent Office Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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listening to the telegraph message

 

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From The Bureau of Indian Affairs period

 

 

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Phillips Collection Portrait Gallery American Indian Museum Botanic Garden Dupont Circle Ford's Theatre Howard Theatre President's Park Union Station St Patricks Tudor Place National Capitol National Cathedral Martin Luther King Memorial Old Patent Office Korean Memorial Library of Congress Roosevelt Memorial House of the Temple World War II Memorial Elderhostel Program D C WWI Memorial

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