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Snow Fight on the Capitol Plaza – Pic of the Week

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As winter winds its way to a close, snow has continued to fall this week in Washington.  Kelly sent me a link to today’s Pic of the Week suggesting I tweet it.  I liked it so much I thought it deserved to be today’s post.

Senate page boys stage their first snow battle on the Capitol plaza. between 1909 and 1932. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09408.
Senate page boys stage their first snow battle on the Capitol plaza. between 1909 and 1932. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09408.

Not only is it a fun photo, but it has Congressional pages!  As a former House page during the summer of 1994 (more than twenty years ago? That can’t be right!), I still have an affinity for the program that helped lead me to Washington, DC, where I continue to work for Congress at their Library.

The History, Art & Archives website of the House of Representatives has a great publication on the History of the House Page Program.  Although the House program no longer exists, the Senate program is still going strong.

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