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Jeannette Rankin is a bronze sculpture depicting the American politician and women's rights advocate of the same name by Terry Mimnaugh, installed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Montana in 1985. [1]
United States Capitol Visitor Center: Bronze [157] Jason Lee Statue: 1953 Gifford MacGregor Proctor: United States Capitol: Bronze: Jean Baptiste Colbert, Relief Portrait: 1950 Laura Gardin Fraser: House Chamber Marble [158] Jeannette Rankin Statue: 1985 Terry Mimnaugh: Emancipation Hall, United States Capitol Visitor Center: Bronze [159 ...
Statue of Freedom's plaster model in the Capitol Visitor Center. Restoration of the statue and the pedestal was completed in approximately four months. The Statue of Freedom was returned to its pedestal by helicopter on October 23, 1993, amid the celebration of the bicentennial of the U.S. Capitol. Since then, every 2–3 years, the statue ...
Entrance to the Visitors Center. The space is mainly designed for use as a holding zone for visitors waiting to take tours of the Capitol. The number of annual visitors to the Capitol has tripled from 1,000,000 in 1970 to nearly 3,000,000 as of recent times, and it has become difficult to deal with the congestion caused by such crowds. [1]
The sculpture was unveiled on April 28, 2009, in Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center. It was the first sculpture of an African-American woman to be on display in the Capitol. [ 1 ] First Lady Michelle Obama , Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi , Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee were among ...
At an unveiling ceremony in at the United States Capitol Visitor Center, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders ...
Helen Keller is a bronze sculpture depicting the American author and political activist of the same name by Edward Hlavka, installed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.
The National Statuary Hall Collection is composed of statues donated by individual U.S. states to honor persons notable in their history. Limited to two statues per state, the collection was originally set up in the old Hall of the House of Representatives, which was then renamed National Statuary Hall.