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Report of the chronicler of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1966-1968 [by] Maurice P. Mahoney.

Book/Text

Washington [Columbia Historical Society, 1970]

1970

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 72-1568Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Confederate blockade of Washington, D.C., 1861-1862 / by Mary Alice Wills.

Book/Text

Parsons, W. Va. : McClain Print. Co., [1975]

1975

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 75-2364Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The burning of Washington : August 1814 / Mary Kay Phelan ; illustrated by John Gretzer.

Book/Text

New York : Crowell, [1975]

1975

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 75-2445Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Yesterday's Washington, D.C. / Charles Ewing.

Book/Text

Miami : E. A. Seemann Pub., [1976]

1976

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 77-157Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington, a chronological & documentary history, 1790-1970 / compiled and edited by Howard B. Furer.

Book/Text

Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications, 1975.

1975

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 975.3-F (Furer, H. Washington)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Academie achievement of selected athletes and selected non-athletes at Howard University.

Microform

Washington, 1972.

1972

1 item

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FormatMicroformCall number*ZH-360 9 misc. american history titlesItem locationOffsite

District of Columbia : a bicentennial history / David L. Lewis.

Book/Text

New York : Norton, c1976.

1976

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 86-235Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 77-836Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The City of Washington : an illustrated history / by the Junior League of the City of Washington ; edited by Thomas Froneck. 1st ed.

Book/Text

New York : Knopf, 1977.

1977

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNYGB D.C. G 12.5Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 78-630Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The woman who loved John Wilkes Booth / by Pamela Redford Russell.

Book/Text

New York : Putnam, c1978.

1978

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 78-3075Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The Anacostia story, 1608-1930 / Louise Daniel Hutchinson.

Book/Text

Washington : Published for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by the Smithsonian Institution Press : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977.

1977

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Anacostia) 79-121Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them ...

Microform

Hartford, Conn., A. D. Worthington, 1874.

1874

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FormatMicroformCall number*ZAN-T3340 reel 361 no. 2491-2497.1Item locationOffsite

The seat of government of the United States : a review of the discussions, in Congress and elsewhere, on the site and plans of the federal city, with a sketch of its present position and prospects ... : also, a notice of the Smithsonian Institution / by Joseph B. Varnum, jr.

Book/Text

New York : Press of Hunt's merchant's magazine, 1848.

1848

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) (Varnum, J. B. Seat of government of the United States. 1848)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Anacostia story, 1608-1930 / Louise Daniel Hutchinson.

Book/Text

Washington : Published for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by the Smithsonian Institution Press : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977.

1977

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 80-44Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Washington: a history of the capital, 1800-1950.

Book/Text

Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press [1976]

1976

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 78-3250Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Old Washington, D.C., in early photographs, 1846-1932 / by Robert Reed.

Book/Text

New York : Dover Publications, 1980.

1980

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FormatTextCall numberISK+ (Washington) 82-381Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Mr. Lincoln's city : an illustrated guide to the Civil War sites of Washington / Richard M. Lee.

Book/Text

McLean, Va. : EPM Publications, c1981.

1981

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 82-1365Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Minutes of the Berean Baptist Church, Washington D.C. / transcribed and indexed by Paul E. Sluby, Sr. and Wanda Harris.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : Columbian Harmony Society, [c1982]

1982

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 83-226Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington past and present : a guide to the Nation's capital / [Donald R. Kennon, Richard Striner, authors].

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : United States Capitol Historical Society, 1983.

1983

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 84-932Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington, D.C., then and now : 69 sites photographed in the past and present / by Charles Suddarth Kelly.

Book/Text

New York : Dover Publications, 1984.

1984

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 85-2694Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Reveille in Washington / by Margaret Leech.

Book/Text

New York : Carroll & Graf, 1986, c1969.

1986-1969

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 87-6Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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A new embassy.

Book/Text

New York : German Information Center, [1964].

1964

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 86-1271Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Chronicles of Georgetown life, 1865-1900 / Mary Mitchell.

Book/Text

Cabin John, MD : Seven Locks Press, 1986.

1986

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Georgetown) 87-1006Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The story of the burning of Washington / by R. Conrad Stein ; illustrated by Richard Wahl.

Book/Text

Chicago : Childrens Press, [1985], c1984.

1985-1984

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIIH 88-283Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington goes to war / David Brinkley.

Book/Text

New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1988.

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 88-1779Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Images of Brookland : the history and architecture of a Washington suburb / edited by George W. McDaniel, John N. Pearce ; revised and enlarged by Martin Aurand.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : Center for Washington Area Studies, George Washington University, c1982.

1982

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 77-736 no. 10Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington goes to war / David Brinkley.

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Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, c1988.

1988

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FormatLarge printCall numberISK (Washington) 89-11,446Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Mr. Lincoln's forts : a guide to the Civil War defenses of Washington / by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III and Walton H. Owen II ; foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.

Book/Text

Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub. Co., 1988.

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 89-21464Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Pennsylvania Avenue : America's main street / Carol M. Highsmith and Ted Landphair ; featuring the photographs of Carol M. Highsmith ; foreword by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : American Institute of Architects Press, 1988.

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK+ (Washington) 90-4882Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington at home : an illustrated history of neighborhoods in the Nation's Capital / Kathryn Schneider Smith, editor.

Book/Text

[Northridge, Calif.] : Windsor Publications, 1988.

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 90-11273Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington-behind the monuments / by Bruce I. Bustard.

Book/Text

Washington, DC : National Archives and Records Administration, 1990.

1990

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 90-12549Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington history : magazine of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

Book/Text

[Washington, D.C.] : The Society, [1989-

1989-present

18 items

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FormatPrintCall numberISK (Washington) 90-2753Item locationSchwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Room 108

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FormatPrintCall numberISK (Washington) 90-2753Item locationSchwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Room 108

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Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.

Book/Text

Washington : The Society, 1897-1989.

1897-1989

52 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIAA (Columbia Historical Society. Records)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberIAA (Columbia Historical Society. Records)Item locationOffsite
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A Lecture on our national capital by Frederick Douglass [microform] : study and discussion aids for the secondary student / Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior.

Microform

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1978?]

1978

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro F-11329Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The United States daily [microform].

Microform

Washington [D.C.] : United States Daily Pub. Corp., 1926-1933.

1926-1933

76 items

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FormatMicroformCall numberSEA+++ United States daily) v. 8 (Mar. 6-May 13, 1933)Item locationOffsite
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FormatMicroformCall numberSEA+++ (United States daily) v. 7 (Jan. 3-Mar. 3 1933)Item locationOffsite
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FormatMicroformCall numberSEA+++ United States daily) vol 7 (Mar.-Apr. 1932)Item locationOffsite

Washington on view : the nation's capital since 1790 / John W. Reps.

Book/Text

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1991.

1991

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK+ (Washington) 91-11600Item locationOffsite

Wartime Washington : the Civil War letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee / edited by Virginia Jeans Laas ; foreword by Dudley T. Cornish.

Book/Text

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991.

1991

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKL 92-449Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Footnote Washington : tracking the engaging, humorous, and surprising bypaths of Capital history / Bryson B. Rash.

Book/Text

McLean, Va. : EPM Publications, c1983.

1983

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 92-3817Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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On this spot : pinpointing the past in Washington, D.C. / by Douglas E. Evelyn and Paul Dickson.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : Farragut Pub. Co, 1992.

1992

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 92-6132Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The creation of Washington, D.C. : the idea and location of the American capital / Kenneth R. Bowling.

Book/Text

Fairfax, Va. : George Mason University Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by arrangement with University Pub. Associates, c1991.

1991

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 92-6175Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The center; people and power in political Washington, by Stewart Alsop.

Book/Text

New York, Harper & Row [c1968]

1968

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberID (Alsop, S. J. O. Center) 1968Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 320.973-A (Alsop, S. Center)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black Georgetown remembered : a history of its black community from the founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the present day / Kathleen M. Lesko, general editor & contributing author ; Valerie Babb and Carroll R. Gibbs, contributing authors.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1991.

1991

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 92-222Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Portraits of freedom. A history of black Washington [videorecording] / W*USA-TV, Washington, D.C. ; producer Tina Mance-Lee ; directed by Wally Ashby.

Film, Slide, etc.

United States : WUSA-TV, 1990-02-14.

1990

1 item

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FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberSc Visual DVD-773Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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Port Town to urban neighborhood : the Georgetown waterfront of Washington, D.C., 1880-1920 / by Kathryn Schneider Smith.

Book/Text

Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., c1989.

1989

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Georgetown) 92-10619Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Symbol, sword, and shield : defending Washington during the Civil War / Benjamin Franklin Cooling.

Book/Text

Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub. Co., c1991.

1991

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 92-17323Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington, city and capital / Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1937.

1937

5 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 917.53-F (Federal Writers' Project. Washington, City and Capital)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberRare Books 18-4316Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMap Div. (United States. Works progress administration. District of Columbia. Washington, City and Capital)Item locationOffsite

Recollections of war times; reminiscences of men and events in Washington, 1860-1865. By Albert Gallatin Riddle.

Book/Text

New York [etc.] G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895.

1895

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 973.7-R (Riddle, A. Recollections of war times)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberIKL (Riddle, A. G. Recollections of war times)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech.

Book/Text

New York, London, Harper & Brothers [c1941]

1941

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 973.7-L (Leech, M. Reveille in Washington)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKF (District of Columbia) (Leech, M. Reveille in Washington)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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