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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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Creative Expression GW History

GW’s Complicated History of Gay Representation

A black and white photograph of three GW student members of the Lesbian and Gay People’s Association in the 1989 Cherry Tree Yearbook.
Three members of GW’s Lesbian and Gay People’s Association (LGPA) sit in the group’s office in 1989.

Mallory Durkin, B.A. ’23, International Affairs

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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.

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Civil War Transportation Virginia

A Total Trainwreck: Witnessing the Destruction at Manassas

A watercolor painting by Robert Knox Sneden depicting two burning trains at Manassas Junction, Virginia.

Robert Knox Sneden (1832-1918), “The Destruction of the Union Supply Trains at Manassas Junction, Virginia, by Jackson and Stuart’s Cavalry C.S.A., August 28, 1862,” c. 1875. Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection AS 479.