Modern Federal · Hotels

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith, who had been recording a visual documentation of the renovation of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., catches a shot of herself at work in a mirror

District Of Columbia · 1850–1939

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith, who had been recording a visual documentation of the renovation of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., catches a shot of herself at work in a mirror, District Of Columbia, 1850–1939
Photographer Carol M. Highsmith, who had been recording a visual documentation of the renovation of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., catches a shot of herself at work in a mirror, District Of Columbia, 1850–1939. Hotels — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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