Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States CapitolU.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 - 426 pagini Issued in 1952 under title: Compilation of works of art in the United States Capitol. |
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acquired by purchase Appropriations Committee Room Architect Bronze statue Bronze Unveiled Bryant Baker ceedings Charles Keck Columbus Congress Portrait Constantino Brumidi Edward Enrico Causici Franklin Simmons Freeman Thorp Gaetano Cecere gallery doors GEORGE WASHINGTON Governor Gutzon Borglum Hall of Columns House Chamber House of Representatives House Office Building House wing James Jo Davidson John Blake White Joint Committee Joseph located in Senate main corridor Marble Congressional Marble statue Massachusetts Member of Congress Mural monochrome portrait Niehaus Old Supreme Court Painting by Seth panel Pennsylvania Portrait by Charles portrait by Constantino Portrait by George portrait by unlisted Relief portrait Robert Rotunda Samuel Sculptured second floor Senate Chamber Senate connection Senate wing Seth Eastman South Carolina Speaker Speaker's Lobby statesman Statuary Hall statue by Charles Supreme Court Chamber third floor Trumbull U.S. House U.S. Senate United States Bust United States Capitol unlisted artist Vice President Virginia west corridor William York
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Pagina 350 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Pagina 211 - Resolved by the House of Representatives (the* Senate concurring), That the Architect of the Capitol, upon the approval of the Joint Committee on the Library, with the advice of the Commission of Fine Arts, is hereby authorized 'and directed to relocate within the Capitol any of the statues already received and placed in Statuary Hall, and to provide for the reception and location of the statues received hereafter from the States.
Pagina 212 - New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South...
Pagina 211 - ... illustrious for their historic renown or from distinguished civic or military services, such as each state shall determine to be worthy of this national commemoration; and when so furnished the same shall be placed in the old hall of the House of Representatives, in the capitol of the United States, which is...
Pagina 313 - Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state ; Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury ; Henry Knox, secretary of war ; Edmund Randolph, attorney-general ; and John Jay, chief justice of the United States.
Pagina 211 - President is authorized to invite all the States to provide and furnish statues, in marble or bronze, not exceeding two in number for each State, of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their historic renown or for distinguished civic or military services, such as each State may deem to be worthy of this national commemoration...
Pagina xxi - The Joint Committee on the Library, whenever, in their judgment, it is expedient, are authorized to accept any work of the fine arts on behalf of Congress which may be offered, and to assign the same such place in the Capitol as they may deem suitable, and shall have the supervision of all works of art that may be placed in the Capitol.
Pagina 211 - And the President is authorized to invite all the States to provide and furnish statues, in marble or bronze, not exceeding two In number for each State, of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof...
Pagina vii - Senate and nineteen thousand copies shall be for the use of the House of Representatives ; and...
Pagina 225 - illustrious for their historic renown or distinguished civic or military service" as required under section 1814 of the Revised Statutes of the United States having been selected by the States for commemoration, their brief biographies follow: Alabama.— JLM Curry (1825-1903) and Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906). Curry was distinguished as a Member of Congress of the United States; also the Confederacy; served in the Confederate Army; was United States...