Wash DC - 8-21-11
Audio: John Phillips Sousa      (Slide 0 of 82)
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Union Station - a train and subway station on Capitol Hill

Union Station on Capitol Hill opened in 1907

Union Station's beautiful architecture

Union Station's architecture

Christopher Columbus Memorial outside Union Station

Christopher Columbus Memorial outside Union Station

The Russell Senate Office Building

The Russell Senate Office Building

The atrium dome ceiling inside the Russell Senate Office Building

Mom explores Senator offices inside the Russell Senate building

US Capitol building

US Capitol building

With Mom at the US Capitol building

The Northeast section of the US Capitol building

US Capitol building

US Capitol building

Freedom Statue atop the US Capitol building

Dirkson Senate Office building

Mom outside Senator Amy Klobuchar's office

Inside Senator Amy Klobuchar's office

Inside Senator Klobuchar's office

Mom sitting at Senator Klobuchar's desk

With Mom outside Senator Al Frankin's Office

Receptionist inside Senator Frankin's Office

Inside Senator Frankin's Office

Inside Senator Frankin's Office

Inside Senator Frankin's Office - formrly Senator Paul Wellstone's office

US Capitol Visitor Center

Chief Washakie Statue in the US Capitol

Sara Winnemucca Statue in the US Capitol

Robert E Lee Statue in the US Capitol

The Crypt area of the Capitol below the Rotunda

The rotunda domed ceiling of the US Capitol

The Crypt has 13 statutes - one from each state representing the 13 original states

Statue of Thomas Jefferson in the crypt

Baptism of Pocahantas painting in the crypt

Statue of Ulysses Grant in the crypt

Statue of Gerald Ford in the crypt

Wreathed panel with scenes from American colonial history

Wreathed panel with scenes from American colonial history

Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto painting

Famous presidents who lied in state in this rotunda are Reagan and Ford

Paintings on the rotunda domed ceiling of the US Capitol

With Mom and nephew Doug in the crypt with President Lincoln

National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol

The National Statuary Hall has 100 statues - 2 from each state

National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol

US Supreme Court near the Capitol

The current US Supreme Court building opened in 1935

With Mom at the US Supreme Court

President Taft served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1921-1930

Oliver Wendall Holmes - Supreme Court Justice until 90 years of age

Sandra Day O'Connor - first female Supreme Court Justice

View of the Capitol from the Supreme Court

Front of the US Supreme Court

Canon House of Representatives Office Building

Canon House of Representatives Office Building

Canon House Office domed rotunda

Representative Michele Bachmann's Office in the Canon building

Rayburn House of Representatives Office Building

Rayburn House of Representatives Office Building

US Botanic Gardens near the Capitol

Mom at the US Botanic Gardens

US Botanic Gardens with the Capitol in the background

US Botanic Gardens with the Capitol in the background

US Botanic Gardens

US Botanic Gardens

Papaya Tree at US Botanic Gardens

Mom at the US Botanic Gardens

Statue of James Garfield outside the Capitol

Civil War Memorial at the Capitol Reflecting Pool

Civil War Memorial at the Capitol Reflecting Pool

With Mom at the Reflecting Pool next to the Capitol

With Mom at the Reflecting Pool next to the Capitol

Reflecting Pool next to Capitol

Reflecting Pool and US Capitol

Memorial to Ulysses Grant at the Capitol Reflecting Pool

Memorial to Ulysses Grant at the Capitol Reflecting Pool

Statue outside the US Capitol

American Indian Museum near the Capitol

Totem Pole inside the American Indian Museum

Buffalo Dancer for the Pueblo Indians at the American Indian Museum