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Canoers enjoy a paddle in the Anacostia River near Kingman Island during the 2012 Kingman Island Bluegrass Festival. Photograph by Susana Raab, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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Twenty cent stamp honoring Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War surgeon and advocate of women's rights, first issued in 1982. Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
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