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Serve | Preserve | Inspire — Stewards of the iconic buildings and grounds of #USCapitol Hill. More AOC: 🙂 @aochiring , 🪴 @usbotanicgarden , 🎟 @visitthecapitol
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Capitol Reflecting Pool has been a popular attraction—for ducks +humans! NEW: 2 ramps to safely assist ducks in/out:
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Statue of Freedom and today's partial eclipse. 🌘
This small but mighty team often reports to work at dawn and stays late into the evening to capture the best images. 📷 After a gap in service during the Great Depression + WWII, AOC photography resumed in 1949 and has been going strong ever since.
#PSRW
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Move over cherry blossoms, it’s tulip time too! 🌷
The cherry blossoms get a lot of attention during the day, but what about at night? 🪩
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Cherry blossom petals on the pathway from Union Station to the Russell Building (taken
#OTD
2010).
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The
#CapitolChristmasTree
is officially aglow for the season! 🎄 The tree will be lit from nightfall until 11 p.m. each evening through January 1.
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It's that time of year again — the Capitol Reflecting Pool ramps are installed, now just waiting on the first ducklings! 🦆
#districtducklings
ICYMI:
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The cherry blossoms get a lot of attention during the day, but what about at night? 🪩
The
#USCapitol
cherry blossoms are out for a sunny, but chilly, 1st day of spring in D.C.! ☀️🌸
#BloomWatch
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#USCapitol
's newest statue! Arkansas' Daisy Bates joined the
#NSHCollection
today. The depiction captures her confidently striding forward w/ notebook + newspaper (1957 headline) in hand—references to her involvement in the Arkansas State Press.
More ➡️
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This video celebrates the successful completion of this once-in-a-generation project. The Capitol Dome Restoration:
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Pops of purple at the upper fountain. 💜
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The Capitol Reflecting Pool ducks have had quite the week. Thanks for following!
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The 2015 Capitol Christmas Tree has been lit!
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Freedom had a few more feathers yesterday afternoon: ❄️🦉
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Sunset over the National Mall viewed from the Capitol this evening.
#DC
http://t.co/dABqieQUhp
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A brood of ducks on the Capitol Reflecting Pool early this morning.
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Sunlight streams through
#CapitolDome
windows this morning into the freshly restored Rotunda.
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Sunrise view this morning from the now SCAFFOLD FREE Dome. Restoration work continues.
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What began as a poem in 1893 was later combined with music to form the patriotic song many of us know today:
#4thOfJuly2018
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The
@librarycongress
Jefferson Building dome sees its shadow on the U.S. Capitol dome February 2012.
#GroundhogDay
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The Capitol Dome's cupola after completion of repairs, painting + removal of scaffolding.
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The beginning of tonight's sunset from Senate Park.
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Nestled in a crawlspace, a
#CannonRenewal
electrician discovered this bowler hat that may be from the early 1900s: 🔍
#ArchivesTipOfTheHat
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THE LIGHTS! ✨🎄
The
#CapitolChristmasTree
will be lit from nightfall until 11 p.m. each evening now through January 1.
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Cascade of Books above entrance to
@librarycongress
James Madison Bldg. 98 open books, some 5 ft wide.
#WorldBookDay
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JUST ANNOUNCED → 2016 Capitol Christmas Tree Dates: Arrival 11/28. Lighting Ceremony 12/6.
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IN PROGRESS → Safety netting ("doughnut") being lowered + removed from Capitol Rotunda. Restoration nearly complete!
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It’s
#districtducklings
season at the Capitol Reflecting Pool! 🐥 Spotted earlier this week using one of our ramps to safely get out of the water. [ Video thanks to a
@DCCityWildlife
volunteer. ]
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Cherry blossoms spotted this morning at the Rayburn House Office Building horseshoe. 🌸
#CherryBlossomDC
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Happy birthday,
@librarycongress
! 🎉
#LOC220
Until the Thomas Jefferson Building opened in 1897, the Library of Congress was housed in the
#USCapitol
's west center building:
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5th anniversary of Discovery, atop
#NASA
747 Shuttle Carrier, passing the U.S. Capitol on its way to
@airandspace
Museum.
#OTD
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With a few more levels of scaffolding gone, window tops of the Dome's Second Story are now visible.
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It's beginning to look more like fall down the National Mall. 🍁
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The lights are on / The feeling's here
That only comes / This time of year
Simply having a "Wild & Wonderful" Christmastime.
The 2023
#CapitolChristmasTree
will be lit from dusk until 11 p.m. each evening now through January 1, 2024. ✨🎄
Each year, the Architect of the Capitol selects the annual
#CapitolChristmasTree
in consultation with the
@forestservice
. This year's tree is a 63-foot Norway spruce from the Greenbrier Ranger District in West Virginia's
#MonongahelaNationalForest
. 🌲🔜🎄
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We've officially welcomed the Capitol Christmas Tree to the West Front! Lighting Ceremony on Tuesday, December 6. 🎄
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This 'new' paint scheme (right) is actually old. Based on paint analysis + historic photographs, our team is restoring the
#USCapitol
2nd floor Senate corridors to how they appeared circa 1865-1896.
#HistoricPreservation
Other than main colors, what differences do you see?
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Guess who's back in Senate Parks...
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Hall of Columns with this morning’s light. ✨
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14th Amendment adopted
#OTD
1868. See abolitionist Frederick Douglass’ statue → Emancipation Hall,
@visitthecapitol
.
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Meet
#NormanBorlaug
the newest addition to National Statuary Hall Collection:
http://t.co/Wn3QrSfhN7
#Borlaug100
http://t.co/3PQvoO4MhB
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Today is our 15th straight day of measurable rain in the D.C. area. At least sometimes there is a rainbow.
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Dome scaffolding removal is complete at Cupola level, pausing for paint +other work to continue at the Second Story.
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Blue skies and white cherry blossoms on grounds of
@librarycongress
this afternoon.
#DC
http://t.co/uTwwOI6ByB
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A Cascade of Books by Frank Eliscu is a bronze sculptural screen above the main entrance to the
@librarycongress
Madison Building:
#NationalBookLoversDay
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#OTD
1781 Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, which ended the last major campaign of the Revolutionary War. This painting of the surrender by artist John Trumbull hangs in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
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Four Olmsted lanterns marking entrances to the
#USCapitol
Grounds were recently restored with the goal of returning them to their original look: ✨
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Remembering
#Flight93
heroes, whose brave sacrifice saved lives & may have saved the Capitol:
http://t.co/MvTtxFY43U
http://t.co/KSL1gvSNRF
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The 1st comprehensive restoration of the Capitol Dome in more than half a century is now complete.
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The Capitol Grounds leaf piles are larger than most. We've removed about 33 dump trucks worth since October. 🍂
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Today’s view east from the top of the Dome. ☀️
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Today, the 2016 Capitol Christmas Tree will be harvested and will soon begin its 2,500-mile journey from Idaho:
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Capitol flag at half-staff in honor of the victims of the
#Oklahoma
tornado
http://t.co/iOSw4QLjQi
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Much goes into the presidential inauguration. Here are a few numbers that help set the stage for this special day: 🔨
#Inaugural59
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Spotted: AOC crew early this a.m. clearing
#blizzard2016
. Our yellow suits really stand out! 📷:
@atsinha
.
#Snowzilla
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A few of the doggos 🐶 that came out to enjoy the Capitol campus this month.
#FanFriday
👉 Full size photos + credits at .
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A few captures of the 🌕
#supermoon
from earlier this week. 👉 Full size photos + credits at .
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Turtles spouting water in Neptune Fountain,
@librarycongress
Jefferson Building main entrance.
#WorldTurtleDay
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The lion is a popular symbol in art and architecture on the Capitol campus:
#InternationalCatDay
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ICYMI: yesterday.
The Capitol is seen at sunrise, in Washington, Oct. 10, 2017.
#APPhoto
J. Scott Applewhite
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