Category: Collection Spotlight

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Collection Spotlight Monuments

The Washington Monument Capstone

Colored print of six white men in blue suits placing the shiny capstone on top of the marble monument.

S. H. Nealy, “572 Feet High – Setting the Capstone on the Washington Monument,” Harper’s Weekly. Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection AS 182.

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Architecture Collection Spotlight Monuments National Mall

The Original Washington Monument Design

E. Warren, “The Washington National Monument,” published by James Charles Armytage, c. 1855. Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection AS 2017.2.

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Collection Spotlight Presidents White House

Easter Egg Roll at the White House: A Time Capsule of America’s Racial and Religious History

Black and white photo of a man in a suit jacket and pants with a young girl in a dress and hat, in front of the White House.
Printed postcard showing the White House grounds on Easter Monday in 1898. Photo originally taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952). Albert H Small Washingtoniana Collection AS 957.

Emma Cieslik, M.A. ’23, Museum Studies

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Architecture Collection Spotlight National Mall

Renwick’s Castle on the National Mall

A colored woodcut lithograph depicting the Smithsonian Institute Castle from the National Mall in 1855, with throngs of pedestrians walking in the foreground. The image is labeled “View of the Smithsonian Institute - Washington City.”

“View of the Smithsonian Institute – Washington City,” Harper’s Weekly, c. 1855. Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection AS 51.