Behind the Scenes
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In the bleak winter, when most Washingtonians are looking to stay indoors, the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) Capitol Grounds and Arboretum team still spends a lot of time outside.
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While George Washington never actually graced the halls of the U.S. Capitol, his presence, influence and even his likeness, is everywhere including 35 pieces of art.
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At the end of the Revolutionary War, the British are shown laying down their arms against a symbolic sunset.
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Three Native Americans of northern Florida's Timucuan tribe are depicted near their village.
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A member of a hunting-gathering tribe is shown in a northern forest with pine and fur trees.
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A converted Native American kneels in prayer under the guidance of a monk in front of the El Carmelo mission.
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A lone explorer in a canoe enters the picture, symbolically from the east.
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The third signing of the Louisiana Treaty, which occurred in New Orleans, is depicted.
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The explorers are shown on the Missouri river looking over a Mandan village.
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Boston Harbor appears in a moonlit scene, with people dressed as Native Americans throwing crates of tea from a boat; this famous event led to the Revolutionary War.
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This mural shows different methods used by prospectors in the search for wealth in California, the Yukon and Alaska.
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A typical prairie home is shown with a barbed wire fence, which represents the settlement of the great open plains.
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A couple picks cotton in the south with their cabin behind them and the plantation house in the distance.
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Riders are shown at the Hollenberg station, readying to switch ponies. In the background workers string cables for the telegraph, which would soon replace the Pony Express.
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This college building in Kansas was one of the first created under the 1862 Morrill Act, which was meant to ensure higher education for all classes of Americans.
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A village celebration with dancers and indigenous percussion instruments is shown in a typical Hawaiian setting.
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An unusual combination of dancers in Hopi and Navajo costumes performs a ceremony.
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At the connection of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in Promontory, Utah, two locomotives meet and two men shake hands before a group of workers.
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A longhouse of the northwest is decorated with paintings and set amid totems. Before the building, a fur trader is trading guns to the Native Americans for furs.
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Representing the Great Banks and North Atlantic fisheries, this vignette depicts salt bins, a rod shed, and a pier; a three-masted ship is seen offshore.
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Two settlers use a team of oxen to remove the stumps of newly felled trees while, in the background, others build a log hut next to an inland river.
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Two different types of covered wagons are shown, along with livestock and a family of settlers cooking a meal over an open fire.
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Along the Erie Canal at Lockport, New York, horses are shown pulling the barges that have just gone through the locks.
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The map shows the first thirteen colonies and the year in which each entered the Union. The original Northwest territories, the Connecticut Reserve, and Spanish and West Florida are also shown.
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On this map of the lands, an Eskimo hunts in a kayak; nearby seal and walrus represent the fur trade as well as the subsistence of the indigenous people.
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A map shows the islands now called Hawaii, which were annexed in 1898; an island native carries fruit in an out-rigger canoe with a cloth sail.