Highlights: Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Capitol. Vietnam Memorial Wall. Vietnam Memorial Statues. Outside Kennedy Center. Lincoln Memorial. Jefferson Memorial. White House. Washington Memorial. Watergate Complex. National Museum of African American History and Culture. National Building Museum. Eviction Exhibit. National Portrait Museum. Artwork. President Obama. First Lady Michelle Obama. Lincoln's plaster face and hands. The Four Justices. Luis Muñoz Marín. President Kennedy. President Bill Clinton. Sunset.
Washington, D.C. - May 15, 1993
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The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
Capitol. The dome being renovated
Once inside the Capitol, look up and this is what you see.
The statue that sits on the dome of the Capitol being restored.
A closer look at the statue's head.
The Vietnam Memorial. Names of the deceased or missing in action (MIA).
Names not in alphabetical order. To find an individual, one has to look in a book, which will indicate the wall.
The mural outside the Kennedy Center
1993
Part of the Vietnam War Memorial
Lincoln Memorial - "In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever."
The Jefferson Memorial
Upper part of Jefferson's statue
John F. Kennedy (JFK). Found inside the center.
White House
Washington Monument as seen from the mall.
Washington Monument seen from the Jefferson Memorial.
Watergate Complex in background. Kennedy Center on the left.
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Taken from inside the bus
Take from inside the bus.
The glare you see in the middle of photos is from the bus windows.
Cultural Galleries, 4th Floor (L4)
Figurine - Woman selling at market
Woman showing what she's selling
Partial view of Chuck's Cadillac
Eplanation
Outfit worn by Diana Ross in "Lady Sings the Blues".
By Whitfield Lovell (b. 1959) The Card Game in the Rounds 2006-11 Charcoal on paper Individuals not identified
By James Phillips (b. 1945) Sankofa II 1997-98 Acrylic on canvas Note: What shown here may not be entire work.
The loop table lamp
Early Black Magazines
Community Galleries, Sports, Leveling The Playing Field - Level L3
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History Galleries - C1 to C3 C1 - A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond C2 - Defending Freedom, Difining Freedom: The Era of Segregation 1876 - 1968 C3 - Slavery and Freedom: 1400 - 1877 (Photos not displayed in order of listing above.)
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In St. Patrick's I remember sitting at desks like these.
Written by Alonzo de Sandoval, 1627 At right, Captain Thomas Phillips, ca 1694
Toward the end of the American Revolution, the unit was presented with a regimental silk flag.
The Bucks of America was an all-black military company that likely operated in Boston.
This cabin stood on the Point of Pines Plantation on Edisto Island in South Carolina from about 1853 to 2013.
Elton looking down at the crowd. We were waiting to get into the Emmet Till Exhibit
Prison tower to keep watchin of the prisoners.
Part of the Grand Staircase
Tuskegee Airplane
View of outside from inside the museum. Part of Washington Monument.
This, and next 2 photos, views of the area from inside the museum
Washington Memorial, which is close by, as we headed to the L&M Bus
The museum with the sun shining on it.
The window
Visit to D.C. with groups trying to get rent laws changed - May 1, 2018
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This photo, and next 3: Inside Union Station
Leaving Union Station
Capitol
The American Legion's Freedom Bell
A closer view of Freedom Bell
Two views of Union Station from a distance as we walked to the National Building Museum for exhibit & meeting
Trolley
Cranes? Construction taking place all over D.C.
National Building Museum (NBM)
"Evicted", the Exhibit
Inside NBM
Three of many columns in the NBM
"Secret Cities", another Exhibit taking place
Base of column
The sun shining on one of the columns
Pattern of the floor covering
Sun coming through windows on upper floor
By Casper Buberl, 1834 to 1899 Services of the Union in the Civil War: Navy, 1883, plaster
Photos taken from 2nd and 3rd floor
The bigger the box, the more evictions.
Compare NY to VT, NH, etc. I think VT had the least evictions.
WY only had 266 compared to NY's 122,371
The loop table lamp
Women evicted by race.: 4 of 60 White Women, 5 of 60 Hispanic Women and 12 of 60 Black Women.
There's a knock on the door. Whether or not the belongings are packed, the kids are ready, or the new plan is put in place no longer matters. The eviction has begun: it is time to leave.
For a family begin evicted, the event is a devastating blow - a key link in a long chain of problems. Multiplied many times over, every single day, eviction has become a national crisis. More than two million Americans receive eviction notices every year, each with a unique story of loss.
Housing instability leads to problems at work and school, health issues, and community disengagement for children and families. Eviction thereby affects all of us, either directly or indirectly.
Eviction used to be rare in the United States, it is now common. This is a relatively new problem over the past few decades, but it does not have to be a continuing trend. We have tools to make a change.
There's a knock on the door. It's time.
There were over 2.4 million eviction filings in 2015. By comparison, this is almost equivalent to the number of foreclosures starts at the height of the housing crisis in 2009.
Forced displacement can happen in rural areas, in suburbs, or in the midst of the city. Some jurisdiction have laws that help tenants and landlords other have more robust affordable housing markets. But evictions happens everywhere.
Sociologist Matthew Desmond's Eviction La project has accessed date on eviction filing from every state and has mapped them to give us a better picture of the crisis for the first time. Collecting date on court-ordered evictions can help elected officials and policy makers decide how to help families stay home.
(January 14, 2023: During the Covid pandemic, rent freezes put into place. No one could be evicted. Eventually, funds were made available to assist tenants pay rent. After the rent freeze was lifted, landlords could begin their evictions. I do not have a number as to how many tenants were displaced.)
The vicious cycle of loss of housing. I have decided not to transfer written information from old site. It should be noted that NYC residents have the Right To Counsel if being evicted. Also, new rent laws passed by State in 2019.
Outside the National Building Museum
The NBM from a block away.
A closer view.
We walked to the National Portrait Museum
This is 3nd floor
Amy Sherald, Baltimore-based artist painted this portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama
Kehinde Wiley painted this portrait of President Barack Obama
Paul Feely Jack, 1966
Shimomura Crossing the Delaware Roger Shimomura, born 1939), self portrait, acrylic on canvas, 2010
Robert Arneson 35 Year Portrait, 1986
Left - Life mask by Leonard Wells Volk, plaster, 1917 cast after 1860 original. Middle - Also life mask. Done 2/11/1865 by Clark Mills, plaster, 1917 cast after 1865 original Left - By Leonard Wells Volk. Hand closest to head is holding a sawed off broom handle, plaster, 1917 after 1860 original.
The four female Justices Sitting - Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg Standing - Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan Justice O'Connor - First female on the court Justice Sotomayor - First Hispanic Jusitce
Luis Muñoz Marín, 1898 to 1980 By Francisco Rodón, oil on canvas, 1974-1977
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
By Elaine de Kooning, oil on canvas, 1963
William Jefferson Clinton By Chuck Close, oil on canvas, 2006
Courtyard
National Portrait Museum in the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Back in Union Station to head back to NYC Have no idea who the woman is.
A closer view of ceiling
I have no idea what this building is. Took photo on way back to Union Station
Sunset as seen from inside the Megabus. We stopped at a weigh station. Delaware?
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