26 10 274 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/f9c777fdfd898733259a499b5f0b21d9.jpeg f2757c0b7ccc9a84c320499ddcef7354 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.leesburgva.gov/government/departments/thomas-balch-library">Thomas Balch Library</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1160/#geolocation">208 West Market Street, Leesburg, VA 20176</a> <a>+1 (703) 737-7195</a> <a href="http://www.leesburgva.gov/government/departments/thomas-balch-library/library-hours-directions-contact-info/thomas-balch-library-reference-request">Contact Form</a> Description Thomas Balch Library is a history and genealogy library owned and operated by the Town of Leesburg. Collections focus on Loudoun County, regional and Virginia history, genealogy, military history with special emphasis on the American Civil War, and ethnic history. It is designated as an Underground Railroad research site. Thomas Balch Library has a wide variety of traditional and electronic resources to aid researchers, including many unique materials. Our collections include bible records, books, broadsides, business records, cemetery records, census records, county and city government records, deeds and wills, electronic journals and databases, genealogical notes and charts, historic house files, magazines, maps, newspapers, oral histories, organization records, paintings, personal papers, photographs, postcards, posters, rare books, and more. Resource <a href="http://www.leesburgva.gov/government/departments/thomas-balch-library/special-collections/archives-and-manuscripts">Archives & Manuscripts:</a> Include Loudoun town and county records, personal papers, and business, organizational and club records. Collection materials include diaries, correspondence, account books, minutes and ordinances. <a href="http://www.leesburgva.gov/home/showdocument?id=13252">Census Records, Deeds, & Wills:</a> Federal census returns available on microfilm include Loudoun County 1810-1930, all Virginia counties 1810-1930, and selected adjacent Maryland counties. Online access to all U.S. census records is available on-site. Published indexes available as well as microfilm of actual documents for most years up to 1904. More recent years available at courthouse. <a href="http://www.leesburgva.gov/government/departments/thomas-balch-library/special-collections">Historic House Files:</a> Lewis/Edwards survey files from Virginia Department of Historic Resources (M 022) and a later supplement (M 011) containing information about historic sites and buildings in Loudoun County. Leesburg Architectural Surveys survey files of Leesburg’s old and historic districts (M 016) African American Architectural Surveys of Loudoun County (M 013) from the Black History Committee of Friends of the Thomas Balch Library, Inc., and County of Loudoun, Department of Planning, Leesburg, VA. Table of Contents and Indices to Exploring Leesburg Exploring Leesburg was published in 2003 by the Town of Leesburg. The Table of Contents, Address Index and Name Index were created by Thomas Balch Library volunteers and staff. <a href="http://www.leesburgva.gov/home/showdocument?id=977">Maps:</a> Historical and current maps of Loudoun County, its towns, and nearby counties. On-site access to database index of holdings and to the digital Virginia Sanborn Maps. <a href="http://www.leesburgva.gov/home/showdocument?id=14549">Visual Collections:</a> Include over 10,000 indexed images dating from late 1800s to the present, illustrating local history. Collection highlights include works of Loudoun County photographers Russell Gregg (1930s and 1940s), Winslow Williams (1940s and 1950s), Lewis-Edwards Architectural Survey photographs (1970s), and Historic Postcards. More than 6,000 images are available digitally on-site. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thomas Balch Library 19th century 20th century 21st century african american architecture books business records cemetery census city directories civil war correspondence Genealogy Gregg, Russell journals Leesburg Lewis/Edwards survey files library Loudoun County magazines maps microfilm military history minutes newspapers oral history paintings personal papers photographs postcards posters Underground Railroad Virginia Williams, Winslow https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/dc30b75f41098a8885e113cc338313a8.jpg d5630a7f260dd97d8ccbe46d07efe760 Person An individual. Name Jefferson, Thomas Authority Source authority source <a href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089957.html">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089957.html</a> Birth Date 1743 Death Date 1826 Birthplace Shadwell, VA Deathplace Monticello, VA Occupation statesman; architect; draftsman; dignitary; president; ambassador; diplomat Biographical Text Jefferson was an American Founding Father and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). He was elected the second Vice President of the United States (1797–1801), serving under John Adams and in 1800 was elected the third President (1801–09). Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, which motivated American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a new nation. He produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level. Source <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thomas Jefferson ambassador architect dignitary diplomat draftsman president statesman Person An individual. Name Seabrook, Thomas Birth Date c. 1817 Death Date 1897 Deathplace Philadelphia, PA Occupation real estate developer Biographical Text Seabrook was most known for his work on the construction and extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Seabrook, MD takes its name from Thomas Seabrook. He originally built three cottages and a park with fenced-in tame deer in the area near the rail station in the early 1870s. He envisioned a community in the area built on a co-op basis. A school was built in 1895. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seabrook" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seabrook</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thomas Seabrook real estate developer https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/0ffcc37f8642ed03204522e66865f7a4.jpg e5dfb335d6d74b89d9d9a8af12efb282 Person An individual. Name Snowden, Thomas Birth Date 1751 Death Date 1803 Occupation military officer Biographical Text Major Thomas Snowden, who lived in Montpelier, fought in the Revolutionary War under the command of General George Washington. Commissioned to second Major of the Upper Battalion of Militia in Prince George's County on March 18, 1776. He advanced to First Major on July 9, 1776. He was involved in preliminary committee work which prepared the way for the Constitutional Convention. On several occasions during his travels from Mount Vernon to Annapolis, George Washington stayed overnight at Montpelier (one of the second floor rooms is referred to as the Washington bedroom). The home, which was located on the rambling old Post Road, was about a day's coach drive from either location. In particular, Washington stayed at Montpelier on his travels to and from the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Source <a title="http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Montpelier_Mansion.htm" href="http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Montpelier_Mansion.htm">http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Montpelier_Mansion.htm</a> <a title="http://www.snowden-warfield.com/Stories/MajorThomasSnowdenRevolutionaryWarHero.htm" href="http://www.snowden-warfield.com/Stories/MajorThomasSnowdenRevolutionaryWarHero.htm">http://www.snowden-warfield.com/Stories/MajorThomasSnowdenRevolutionaryWarHero.htm</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thomas Snowden military officer https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/f4bd4946ee4720665221c3141bfe4464.jpeg 47c8cfed15a795b5fdd2d498aaccfb85 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="https://www.cosmosclub.org/Default.aspx?pageid=74&pageindex=0">Townsend Mansion, Cosmos Club Historic Preservation Foundation</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1097/#geolocation">2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008</a> <a>+1 (202) 387-7783</a> Description Created in 1987 to promote the preservation of one of Washington's most elegant turn-of-the-century residences, the Townsend Mansion, and the surrounding historic Dupont Circle-Massachusetts Avenue area, the Cosmos Club Historic Preservation Foundation has funded major structural repairs of the Townsend Mansion and restoration of exterior features of the house and garden in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior’s standards. It restored the original wrought and cast iron fence which bounds the property and returned the magnificent Italian fountain in the East Garden to full working order, using conservation measures to preserve the bronze and marble components. The Cosmos Club Historic Preservation Foundation has also undertaken to collect and preserve architectural information on the Townsend Mansion and to inventory its original architectural features. It commissioned an Historic Structures Report to document the construction history of the building and to identify its architecturally and artistically significant elements in order to have a reference point for planning future restoration and preservation projects. Mindful of the loss to history of the mansion's original architectural drawings, the Foundation has established an archival collection of all available documents and drawings from the construction and remodeling projects undertaken by the Cosmos Club during its almost fifty years of ownership. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Townsend Mansion, Cosmos Club Historic Preservation Foundation 20th century architecture books Carrère, John Merven deeds District of Columbia drawings Dupont Circle Hastings, Thomas (architect) historic site Lafayette Square National Register of Historic Places parks photographs preservation reports restoration Washington https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/5127b6efc5642eff6d120c3a9d13dcb3.jpg c6e880ef60eaac0f162aeb26718f905d https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/207acbf7326aa67922ff14f1c5e4034c.jpg f750673c1bdea6ffecbe04780ae0ad88 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/7354636cbd285480f8e882e4a7b8520a.jpg 3d8655526b2105b97b8d65ed2d4f17dd https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/622ba5d3d57ba1e79b0cafce1c920f6e.jpg 1c6af120738b34878bee65f0c1faf4c7 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/a4313932de384043dc5efa8cafdf1322.jpg cc41fb285a05857c4d6c6132436f6f64 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/6a6e46fad6504f1aae8e48d7ab48d75c.jpg 361fe44a860c5c54ba41f79513b6a194 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/">Tudor Place Historic House & Garden</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1138/#geolocation">1644 31st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007</a> <a>+1 (202) 965-0400</a> <a href="mailto:info@tudorplace.org">info@tudorplace.org</a> Description Tudor Place, a National Historic Landmark, was completed in 1816, lived in by six generations of a single family, and opened to the public in 1988, Tudor Place Historic House & Garden preserves, interprets, and shares with the public and scholars the rich resources of its architecture, history, collections, and archive. One of America’s first National Historic Landmarks, it was built by a granddaughter of Martha Washington and a son of Robert Peter, a prominent Scottish-born merchant and landowner and Georgetown’s first mayor. With an inheritance from George Washington, Thomas and Martha Custis Peter purchased 8½ acres of farmland on Georgetown Heights. Dr. William Thornton, architect of the first U.S. Capitol and a family friend, designed the grand neoclassical house. It remains one of the nation’s few historic urban estates retaining the majority of its original landscape. The estate remained under continuous Peter family ownership through six generations spanning 178 years, its rooms a destination for leading politicians, military leaders, and dignitaries. After the 1983 death of Armistead Peter 3rd, the founders’ great-great-grandson, the site was opened to the public in accordance with his wishes. Today, visitors see the house much as he and other Peters lived in it, preserving spaces and belongings of many eras while adapting their home and landscape to contemporary fashion and functions. With an object collection representing every period of the estate’s occupation since 1805, Tudor Place is a time capsule of culture. Its 15,000-plus objects span three centuries and include a range of cultural touchstones from Martha and George Washington’s personal items to Asian and European decorative arts, musical instruments, garden implements, weaponry, 20th-century couture, and a 1919 automobile. In domestic furnishings alone, the Collection encompasses an extensive aggregation of early American silver, porcelain and ceramics from Europe and Asia. While most house museums reflect the tastes and styles of one era, Tudor Place’s nearly encyclopedic accumulation reflects more than 200 years of American social, political, and economic history. Most of the collection is associated with the residents of Tudor Place or close family members, and nearly a third is displayed in the Landmark House. The intimate rooms of Tudor Place exhibit a constellation of decorative arts, fine art, and household furnishings, inviting guests to imagine life in the past. In its contents and the rich Archive that informs them, the object collection is a rich resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts. Photographs by <a href="http://www.matailongdu.com/">Matailong Du</a>. Resource <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/research-history/archive/">Archive:</a> The Tudor Place archival collection of approximately 300 linear feet or 250,000 items consists of the personal papers of the Peter family from the mid-18th century to 1983. It includes correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, financial records, inventories, blueprints, architectural drawings, and ephemera. In addition, a substantial collection of 5,000 books from the 18th through 20th centuries and mid-19th-century photographs complete this rare resource for students and scholars. <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/research-history/collection/in-the-collection/">The Collection:</a> Most of the more than 15,000 objects in Tudor Place’s collection date from 1750 to 1983. Fine and decorative arts holdings encompass American, European, and Asian silver and metalwork, jewelry, furniture, costume and furnishing textiles, paintings, prints, sculpture, porcelain and ceramics, glass, weaponry, and musical instruments. The museum’s Washington Collection is the largest publicly held collection from the first “first family” outside historic Mount Vernon. <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/who-we-are/garden/">Garden:</a> With its 5½ open acres, Tudor Place remains one of America’s last intact urban estates from the Federal Period. Its open lawns and garden rooms are a delight for the senses as well as a historical record of changing land use over time. Thomas and Martha Custis Peter put their land to agricultural and ornamental uses, and numerous trees and shrubs they cultivated still grow on the site today. <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/research-history/reading-room/">Virtual Reading Room:</a> This is Tudor Place’s virtual library, where you’ll find original essays, research, maps, and other resources. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tudor Place Historic House & Garden 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century architecture Asian art automobiles blueprints books ceramics correspondence couture District of Columbia drawings ephemera European art financial records garden historic site instruments inventories objects Park personal papers Peter Family photographs scrapbooks Silver Washington Washington, George Washington, Martha weaponry https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/388c7b28a657c296e1a96b3655d561a1.jpg 2de1af7ede3e46a086435ef292753213 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/Pages/the-treasury-building.aspx">U.S. Department of the Treasury Building & Collections</a> Office of the Curator, Department of the Treasury <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1140/#geolocation">1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20220</a> Main: <a>+1 (202) 622-2000</a> Description The historic Treasury Collection represents one of the oldest and most intact collections of fine and decorative arts, furniture and architectural fragments in the Executive branch of the United States government. Like its immediate neighbor, the White House, the Treasury Department has remained on the original Pennsylvania Avenue site since 1800 when the federal government permanently moved to Washington. The Collection encompasses items from the main Treasury Building and the Department bureaus. The Collection encompasses: <ul><li>Secretary of the Treasury Portraits</li> <li>Paintings</li> <li>Sculpture</li> <li>Furniture</li> <li>Prints & Drawings</li> <li>Photographs</li> <li>Architecture</li> </ul> Resource <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/Pages/edu_history_portraits.aspx">Secretary of the Treasury Portraits & Other Paintings:</a> The Secretary of the Treasury portraits were first acquired by the Treasury Department in the 1870's. Treasury Secretary John Sherman (1877-1881) standardized the size and format of the portraits at three-quarter length and life size, stipulating that the paintings, "...will be obtained from competent artists for $500." This was a significant commission at the time, and allowed for Treasury to acquire works from prominent and professionally trained artists. They included such eminent portrait painters as George Healy, Eastman Johnson, Philipp de Laszlo, Theobald Chartran and Pilides Costa. While the present Treasury Secretary portraits are painted from life, many of the earlier portraits were copied from pre-existing portraits and later, photographs. The majority of these copies were made during the late 19th century when the Treasury Department systematically acquired a likeness of every former Secretary, establishing a complete representation for this high-ranking Cabinet office. The Secretary portraits are displayed throughout the Treasury Building's third floor corridors. In addition to the Secretary of the Treasury portraits, the Department possesses a diverse group of original paintings pertaining to the history of the Treasury Building and Department. Like the antique furnishings and historic artifacts, the artwork is displayed in restored rooms, public spaces and executive offices. Periodically, small exhibitions are organized in the Treasury Building to illustrate particular aspects of Treasury's history and the diversity of the collection. <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/collections/Pages/sculpture.aspx">Sculpture:</a> A number of significant sculptures, including bronze statues of former Secretary’s Hamilton and Gallatin at the north and south entrances to the Treasury Building, are part of the collection. Smaller works such as portrait busts, cast metal figures, bas-reliefs and intricately carved fireplace mantels are on found inside many of the restored rooms and executive offices. Many of the sculptures are original to the Treasury building and their history and placement can be traced back through the years using historic photographs. <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/collections/Pages/furniture.aspx">Furniture:</a> The Treasury Building, America's first modern office building, preserves one of the finest and most extensively documented collections of 19th and early 20th-century office furniture in the United States. This richly diverse collection contains desks, bookcases, conference and tables, chairs, clocks, over-mantel mirrors and office equipment. Many of the objects retain their original maker's and manufacturer's labels while others are identified through inventories, invoices, and period photographs, providing diverse sources of documentation for a significant aspect of American material culture. <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/collections/Pages/graphics.aspx">Prints & Drawings:</a> The Treasury Building was the first home of the Bureau of Engraving & Printing and that legacy continues with displays of some of their most significant works. Examples of printers' and engravers' historic works, as well as artist models for currency specimens and certificates, are exhibited throughout the Treasury Building. Of particular interest to collectors are late 19th and early 20th-century currency, stamp and bond displays which were assembled by the Bureau for world fairs and exhibitions. <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/collections/Pages/photographs.aspx">Photographs:</a> The Treasury Building is one of Washington's oldest and most prominent landmarks and has captured the attention of artists, photographers and engravers since the completion of the east wing in 1842. The Department is the repository of a large and varied collection of interior and exterior views of the Treasury Building in a variety of photographic mediums: prints, glass slides, negatives, stereoscopic images and tinted images. Of special significance are the photographs of prominent 19th century photographers such as Matthew Brady and Frances Benjamin Johnston. Unique to the Collection are a large number of stereoscopic cards that document the evolution of this Washington landmark from the mid 19th century. The photographic cards with a pair of images are viewed through the use of a special binocular “stereoscope” that gives the illusion of added depth. This extensive collection of cards show in great detail the evolution of the Treasury Building, the surrounding grounds and the changing neighborhood around 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue. <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/collections/Pages/architecture.aspx">Architecture:</a> The Treasury Building has evolved through a number of additions and alterations. Over the course of its development, the building has amassed a variety of architectural fragments that now constitute a diverse study collection. Examples include sections of vaults, iron work fragments both structural and decorative, plaster work and hardware. The architectural study collection was expanded significantly during a comprehensive restoration and modernization project of the Treasury Building from 1997 to 2007. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource U.S. Department of the Treasury Building & Collections 19th century 20th century 21st century archives art buildings District of Columbia furniture historic site paintings Pennsylvania Avenue preservation restoration tours Washington https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/488c559957af308dfee904f1fe8e75d9.jpg 7558d6e0c41c5bcef365027e3b7bd96c Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/">U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1142/#geolocation">100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126</a> Main: <a>+1 (202) 488-0400 Library & Archives: </a><a>+1 (202) 479-9717</a><a> Art & Artifacts: </a><a>+1 (202) 488-2649</a><a> Film & Video Archive: </a><a>+1 (202) 488-6104</a><a> Photo Archives: </a><a>+1 (202) 488-6111</a> Library & Archives: <a href="mailto:reference@ushmm.org">reference@ushmm.org</a> Art & Artifacts: <a href="mailto:curator@ushmm.org">curator@ushmm.org</a> Film & Video Archive:<a href="mailto:filmvideo@ushmm.org">filmvideo@ushmm.org</a> Photo Archive:<a href="mailto:photoarchive@ushmm.org">photoarchive@ushmm.org</a> Description The Museum is the central repository in the United States for the study of the Holocaust and serves scholars, students, educators, genealogists, and the broader public by providing access to its collections. These collections, combined with scholarly programs, help sustain the fields of Holocaust and genocide studies and preserve the memory of this tragic history. The Museum’s collection is the basis for investigating aspects of the Holocaust and its lasting impact. In order to properly understand the events associated with the Third Reich and the Nazi occupation of Europe from 1933 to 1945 within their historical context, the temporal parameters of collecting activity extend from the end of World War I to the close of the Jewish displaced persons (DP) camps in the mid-1950s. The Museum’s ability to preserve the memory of the Holocaust relies on its collections, which include photographs; artifacts; films; music; archival documentation; books; testimonies from Holocaust survivors, perpetrators, and eyewitnesses; and more. Each piece of evidence is a crucial part of the historical record that personalizes history and deepens our understanding. The various types of materials include but are not limited to: <ul><li>Art: Drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, artistic posters, and other creative works by Holocaust survivors or victims</li> <li>Audio and video interviews</li> <li>Books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and transcripts</li> <li>Electronic copies, facsimiles, casts, microfilm, and photo reproductions</li> <li>Film, video, and audio recordings</li> <li>Musical recordings and scores</li> <li>Photographs (original and copy prints), photo albums, transparencies, and negatives</li> <li>Textiles: Uniforms, costumes, clothing, badges, armbands, flags, and banners</li> <li>Textual records: Government documents, legal proceedings, institutional records, personal papers, diaries, memoirs, and correspondence</li> <li>Three-dimensional objects: Personal effects, furnishings, architectural fragments, ritual objects, jewelry, numismatics, models, machinery, tools, and other implements</li> <li>Works on paper: Broadsides, announcements, advertisements, posters, and maps</li> </ul> Resource <a href="http://collections.ushmm.org/search/">Collections Search:</a> This is the United States Holocaust Museum cross-catalog "next-generation OPAC" system, providing an interface allowing you to search across our Library, Archives, Art & Artifacts, Film and Video, Oral History, Photo Archives, and Victim List catalog records. Collections Search spans 247,286 records including: <ul><li>89,000 books and other publications</li> <li>65,165 oral history testimonies: 9,608 oral history testimonies--over 17,000 hours--are streamable</li> <li>30,965 names source records</li> <li>4,107 oral history transcripts, notes, or summaries</li> <li>29,076 photographs</li> <li>9,071 document (archival) collections</li> <li>1,097 archival finding aids</li> <li>4,661 moving image (historical film) records: 3,572 moving image records are streamable</li> <li>12,601 objects</li> <li>1,543 collections (groups of more than one item)</li> </ul> <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/online/archival-guide/list.php">Guide to the Archival Collection:</a> The purpose of this Archival Guide to the Collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is to provide the researcher with a general overview of the textual record collections of the Museum and to facilitate the first stage of the research process. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th century art artifacts audiovisual books District of Columbia Holocaust international musuem oral history photographs records testimonies Washington World War II https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/28398ebc737bddd62b6b3a4c08ee61c8.gif 340e71cf0c173c68760ca9ceea3284a1 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/art/a_three_sections_with_teasers/art_hist_home.htm">U.S. Senate Collection</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1150/#geolocation">United States Capitol, Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC 20510</a> <a>+1 (202) 226-8000</a> <a href="mailto:curator@sec.senate.gov">curator@sec.senate.gov</a> Description The art in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol and the Senate office buildings has been acquired principally for its public, patriotic, and commemorative characteristics. The Senate's art is intended to commit to posterity the persons and events of our national history, centered upon the institution of the Senate and the founding of the Republic. The Senate Art Collection consists of: <ul><li>Paintings</li> <li>Sculpture</li> <li>Graphic Art</li> <li>Decorative Art</li> <li>Ephemera</li> </ul> Resource <a href="https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/art/g_three_sections_with_teasers/graphicarts.htm">Graphic Art:</a> The Senate maintains a collection of over 1,000 historical prints and engravings. This collection contains a rich array of 19th and early 20th century images portraying the events, people, and settings of the U.S. Senate. <a href="https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Photo_Collection_of_the_Senate_Historical_Office.htm">Photo Collection of the Senate Historical Office:</a> The United States Senate Historical Office maintains a collection of approximately 35,000 still pictures, slides, and negatives. The collection includes photographs and illustrations of most former senators, news photographs, editorial cartoons, photographs of committees in session, and other images documenting the institutional history of the Senate and the careers of senators. The collection is available for use by the media, congressional offices, academic researchers, and the general public. Most of the photos used on this Web site are part of the Historical Office's collection. For more information, contact the Senate's photo historian (photo_historian@sec.senate.gov). <a href="https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/common/collection_list/Painting.jsp">Paintings:</a> Paintings spanning over 200 years of American history, by some of the country’s preeminent artists. <a href="https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/common/collection_list/Sculpture.jsp">Sculpture:</a> The sculpture collection celebrates the great figures of our national history. <a href="https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/art/a_three_sections_with_teasers/DecorativeArts.htm">Decorative Art:</a> The U.S. Capitol has many exceptional furnishings and unique objects that reflect its status as the seat of our national democracy. Yet its long history as a working office building and popular public attraction has also required the purchase of a wide range of everyday items. With over 1,000 pieces, the Senate’s Decorative Art Collection showcases some of the nation’s most important heirlooms, as well as the many everyday objects that reflect the needs of the institution and its members over the past 200 years. <a href="https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/art/a_three_sections_with_teasers/ephemera.htm">Ephemera:</a> The Senate's collection of ephemera and historic artifacts includes a broad range of everyday objects that were either intended for one-time use or were tailor-made collectibles. These invitations, menus, tickets, autograph albums, bibles, and other memorabilia, help illustrate and better understand the varied proceedings and traditions of the Senate's eventful past. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource U.S. Senate Collection 19th century 20th century 21st century archives art capitol cartoons District of Columbia early Republic ephemera paintings photographs prints U.S. Senate Washington https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/44f617e3efecb8c4a6e7cca6784845a9.jpg d42a38d7f4c198d4a36bbc294d5fd8ec Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/about.aspx">U.S. Supreme Court Building & Collection</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1143/#geolocation">1 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20543</a> <a>+1 (202) 479-3000</a> <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/contact/contact_curator.aspx">Contact Form</a> Description The Supreme Court of the United States has been acquiring works of art since the 1830s. These early acquisitions were mostly portraits and busts of Chief Justices used to decorate the Supreme Court Chamber and Robing Room in the U.S. Capitol. The move to the Supreme Court Building greatly increased the space for works of art and many objects were acquired during the 1930s and 1940s through the tireless efforts of Marshal Thomas E. Waggaman. Over the years, additional objects were acquired through Congressional appropriation, purchase, gift and bequest. Robing Room in the U.S. Capitol, c.1925 In 1973, under the leadership of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, the Office of the Curator was created to care for what has subsequently become known as the "Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States." Over the ensuing years, the collection has expanded to include objects that document the lives of individual Justices, the institutional history of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Building. The Supreme Court's Collections are organized into several departments: <ul><li>Archives includes oaths of office, speeches, docket books, miscellaneous papers of Justices, as well as some documents relating to the construction and architecture of the Supreme Court Building.</li> <li>Decorative Arts includes historic furnishings, antique furniture, and other decorative arts. Collection pieces are used in many rooms throughout the building.</li> <li>Fine Arts includes portraits, miniatures, and busts of Justices and those associated with the Court many of which are on exhibit throughout the building.</li> <li>Graphic Arts includes lithographs, engravings, and photographs associated with the Justices, former meeting places of the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court Building, and other related topics.</li> <li>Memorabilia & Ephemera includes objects that are associated with Justices such as furniture, robes, desk sets, clocks, and traveling cases.</li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource U.S. Supreme Court Building & Collection 19th century 20th century 21st century architecture archives art Burger, Warren E. capitol District of Columbia ephemera Federal furniture memorabilia photographs portraits Robing Room Supreme Court Waggaman, Thomas E. Washington