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5 dni temu · The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US First Lady. The quarter-plate daguerreotype of former First Lady Dolley Madison (1768-1849...
5 dni temu · Matt Growcoot. The quarter-frame dageurreotype of Dolley Madison taken by John Plumbe. The National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has purchased a daguerreotype of Dolley ...
1 dzień temu · Detail from a 1855–56 fresco by Constantino Brumidi in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., showing two early symbols of America: Columbia (left) and the Indian princess. Bartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express the idea of American liberty.
3 dni temu · Martha Washington (born June 2, 1731, New Kent county, Virginia [U.S.]—died May 22, 1802, Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.) was the American first lady (1789–97), the wife of George Washington, first president of the United States and commander in chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolutionary War.
2 dni temu · For Mary Wiseman, historically portraying Lady Washington for nearly 20 years at the Mount Vernon plantation has branched out in ways she never could imagine back in the beginning.
1 dzień temu · The Declaration was a formal explanation of why the Continental Congress voted to declare American independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, over a year after the American Revolutionary War commenced with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, in April 1775.
3 dni temu · Aerial view of the White House complex, including Pennsylvania Avenue (closed to traffic) in the foreground, the Executive Residence and North Portico (center), the East Wing (left), and the West Wing and the Oval Office at its southeast corner. The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
