2-709-958 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Agricultural Department, Washington, D.C.', c1897. On May 15, 1862, during the Civil War, Congress approves the creation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Construction began on the first Department of Agriculture Building on the National Mall in 1867. From "A Tour Through the New World America", by Prof. Geo. R. Cromwell. [C. N. Greig & Co., London, c1897]