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Lewis and Clark

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
The explorers are shown on the Missouri river looking over a Mandan village.

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Fort St. Augustine

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
The fort with its arrowhead-shaped bastions is shown in an aerial view.

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Explorers' Portage

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
Trappers carry a birch-bark canoe across a rapids in a stream.

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Boston Tea Party, 1773

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
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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Boone at Cumberland Gap

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
Daniel Boone brings settlers into Kentucky.

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Gold Prospectors

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
This mural shows different methods used by prospectors in the search for wealth in California, the Yukon and Alaska.

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Sod House

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
A typical prairie home is shown with a barbed wire fence, which represents the settlement of the great open plains.

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Sharecroppers

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
A couple picks cotton in the south with their cabin behind them and the plantation house in the distance.

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Pony Express

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
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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Land Grant College

By Sarah Davis
| February 13, 2024
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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Island Dance

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
A village celebration with dancers and indigenous percussion instruments is shown in a typical Hawaiian setting.

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Indian Ceremony

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
An unusual combination of dancers in Hopi and Navajo costumes performs a ceremony.

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Hunting Game

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
A single hunter with a long rifle stalks a squirrel and a turkey.

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Golden Spike

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
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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Fur Trade

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
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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Drying Cod

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
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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Clearing Land

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
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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Covered Wagons

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
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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Canal and Locks

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
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 First Thirteen Colonies

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
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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Alaskan Purchase, 1867

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
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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Sandwich Islands

By Sarah Davis
| February 12, 2024
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.

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Weaving

By Sarah Davis
| February 9, 2024
The craft is shown as a family operation, with children carding the wool, a young woman spinning it, and an older woman operating a loom.

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Rotunda East Door Clock

By Sarah Davis
| February 9, 2024
The clock sits on a base composed of a wreath and fasces, a Roman symbol used throughout the Capitol that represents authority or law. In the early American republic, fasces also represented the strength of the states when united. The wreath below the clock face is made of laurel and oak branches
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Volume 27 of Tholos Magazine Now Available

By AOC Staff
| January 25, 2024
Highlights include articles featuring the Architect's Citation Award winner, sustainability, summer internships and the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree.
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Thurgood Marshall Façade Stabilization

By Sarah Davis
| December 4, 2023
Work to stabilize façade elements at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building has begun.
A snowman smiles on the West Front Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Public Notice

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Six Tips for Sledding Safely on Capitol Hill

By AOC Staff
| January 2, 2024
This winter, sections of the U.S. Capitol Grounds West Front may be open for community sledding during daylight hours (dawn to dusk). Everyone is invited to join in the fun, but we ask that you remain safe and aware of the area and of workers who are clearing snow and ice. Keep these tips in mind
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Summer Interns Gain Experience for Future Seasons of Their Careers

By Madeleine Lucchetti
| December 5, 2023
From carpentry and photography to clerking and gardening, the AOC internship program exposes students to a host of opportunities within the federal government.
Capitol Dome, blue sky and Christmas tree.
Programs & Events

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It Takes a Village To Prepare the People's Tree

By Carol Campos
| November 17, 2023
A team of employees from the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) work seamlessly and tirelessly to ensure that the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is ready to spread holiday cheer to visitors from all over the country and around the world.

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Quotations and Inscriptions

By Sarah Davis
| November 9, 2023
A list of some of the quotations and inscriptions found in the buildings on Capitol Hill.

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