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Archive: August 2012 (5 Posts)

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It Happens Every Four Years!

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

What summer event filled with spectacle and circumstance, speeches and ovations, and capped by a balloon drop happens every four years? No, it’s not the Olympic Games; it’s political party convention time! These quadrennial events are the formal nominating process for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates. In addition to the serious work of nailing down …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Not for the Acrophobic: Painting the Capitol Dome

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

Here’s a job that’s not for the acrophobic — painting the outside of the Capitol dome! In fact, this 1922 photograph from our National Photo Company Collection may bring on a bit of vertigo in our heights-sensitive readers when they realize how high up in the air this painter is suspended. If this thought hasn’t …