These young men are patent clerks.
They were photographed in 1924 on the third floor of the Patent Office Building on F Street in Washington, D.C., in a room often called “the model room.”
The Patent Office Building was then almost one hundred years old; and it had been the place where much of the American story had unfolded.
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