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Photographic Print
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A Picnic on the White House Lawn
Description
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During the 1800s the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66">White House</a> was much more accessible than it is today and informal social events were often held at the executive mansion. In this photo, a group is picnicking on the White House grounds with the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/337">Treasury Department building</a> visible in the background. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/255">Unlike today, this area has the look of a forest with many large trees</a>. Before the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/206">McMillan Commission's redesign of the Mall</a> in 1902 the area was a series of meandering paths, gardens, and dense trees.
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002723172/">View Original</a>.
Date
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1889
Coverage
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1860-1889
Creator
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Uriah Hunt Painter (photographer)
environment
everyday life
ghost mall
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Negative
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8 in x 10 in
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Turning the Ground Near the Lincoln Memorial
Creator
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Theodor Horydczak (photographer)
Source
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/thc1995009388/pp/">View original</a>.
Date
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1920
Coverage
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1920-1949
Description
An account of the resource
<p>In the 1920s, the land on the western end of the Mall was transformed from a field into the planned landscape surrounding the newly-built <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial</a>, designed by architect James Greenleaf. In this photo, a two-person team tills the land near the Memorial with a horse-drawn tractor to prepare the grounds for planting.</p>
design & monuments
environment
everyday life
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Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
Physical Description
Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall.
grass panels
Location
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National Mall
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Gardens and Landscapes
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Title
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Mall Turf
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span><span>Foot traffic from 25 million annual visitors is hard on the Mall’s natural resources. In 2017, the National Park Service completed a restoration project that re-engineered a total of 18 acres of turf between 3rd and 14th Streets to ensure preservation and access. The project included the installation of accessible granite curbs and compaction resistant soil. A new irrigation system was developed by installing drains and large underground cisterns to collect storm water which will be used to water the grass. A Turf Manager was hired to maintain the project, the first position of its kind in the National Park Service.</span></span></p>
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National Park Service, National Mall and Memorial Parks. <a href="http://www.nps.gov/nama/naturescience/mall-turf.htm">View Original</a>.
Date
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2012
Coverage
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2000-present
environment
everyday life
work & play
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Still Image
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Color photograph
Physical Dimensions
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4 x 6
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Arborists on the Mall
Description
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The National Park Service employs a team of professional arborists to ensure the continued health of the Mall's 9,000 trees. Sometimes known as "tree doctors," the arborists care for the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/24">cherry trees along the Tidal Basin</a>, which have been a fixture on the Mall since 1912. Without their hard work, the centerpieces of the annual <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/480">Cherry Blossom Festival </a>might not exist. <span>The Mall’s trees are beautiful, but they also serve another important function: removing air and water pollutants from the city and Chesapeake Bay watershed.</span>
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National Park Service Internal Archives
Coverage
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2000-present
environment
everyday life
work & play
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Event Type
Cultural Gathering
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19340419
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Early Cherry Blossom Festival
Description
An account of the resource
As soon as the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/24">Japanese cherry trees</a> were planted, Washingtonians and tourists enjoyed the blossoms every spring. Although there were cherry blossom fetes in the 1920s, they were mostly held in Hains Point. The first Cherry Blossom Festival, which was intended to be the start of an annual tradition, took place in the spring of 1934. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/330">First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt</a> and a delegation from the Japanese embassy led the sunrise ceremony that opened the event. The Festival included a parade, a ball, fireworks, and a performance of the Mikado, an English operetta set in Japan, at the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/3">Sylvan Theatre</a>.
Source
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"Full Program is Announced," <em>The Washington Post</em>, April 4, 1934.
Date
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4/19/1934
Coverage
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1920-1949
arts & culture
environment
work & play
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Event Type
Environmental Disaster
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18890602
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Flood of 1889
Description
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On June 2, 1889, heavy rains caused massive flooding in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and overwhelmed the South Fork Dam. The storm also hit the Washington, DC, area. As a result, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/259">the Potomac River flooded and areas around Pennsylvania Avenue were under several feet of water</a>. The flooding was made worse by sewers that became clogged with dirt from unpaved roads and began overflowing, causing the water to rise. The only access between the east and west of the city was by boat.
Date
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06/02/1889
Coverage
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1860-1889
Source
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Johnson, Willis Fletcher. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=60wOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=History+of+the+Johnstown+Flood&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LMt3UpiqDpSusASy8oGwBA&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=History%20of%20the%20Johnstown%20Flood&f=true"><em>History of the Johnstown Flood: With Full Accounts Also of the Destruction of the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek.</em></a> J. W. Keeler & co., 1889, 379.
environment
work & play
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Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
Physical Description
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107 acre reservoir between the Potomac River and Washington Channel.
Type
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Gardens and Landscapes
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Title
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Tidal Basin
Creator
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Alexander and Repass
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2008005337/">View original.</a>
Date
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1949
Coverage
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1920-1949
Description
An account of the resource
The Tidal Basin serves several purposes on the National Mall. Primarily, it is a reservoir for the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/424">Potomac River</a> and Washington Channel. In the past, it has also served as a recreational area for <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/164">swimming</a>, ice skating, or <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/494">boating</a>. Built by <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/137">Alexander and Repass</a>, the Tidal Basin is lined with <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/24">Japanese Cherry Trees</a>, making it the center of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/480">Cherry Blossom Festival</a>, and it borders several monuments, including the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/31">Jefferson</a>, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/156">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/27">FDR</a>, and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/16">George Mason</a> memorials. All of these factors make the Basin one of the central natural and recreational features of the National Mall.
design & monuments
environment
work & play
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Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
Physical Description
Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall.
The Potomac River is 405 miles long, running through West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. The Anacostia River is 8.4 miles long, running through Maryland, and Washington, DC.
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Gardens and Landscapes
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Potomac and Anacostia Rivers
Description
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The southern boundary of Washington, DC, is bordered by two rivers: the Potomac and the Anacostia. The rivers have long had problems with pollution from human and industrial waste. In the 1860s, President Lincoln used to complain of the smell of the rivers, retreating to Soldier's Home to escape. In the 1970s, President Lyndon B. Johnson attempted to reverse decades of pollution, making the rivers a focus of the 1972 Clean Water Act. Today the rivers are improving, but still suffer from pollution.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95515129/">View original</a>.
Coverage
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Pre-1800s
2000-present
environment
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<p class="p1">Then spent two hours in the garden, where at every visit enquiries multiply upon me. In this small garden of less than two Acres, there are forest and fruit trees, shrubs, hedges, esculent vegetables, kitchen and medicinal herbs, hot house plants, flowers and weeds, to the amount I conjecture of at least one thousand, one half of them perhaps are common weeks, most of which have none but the botanical name. I ask the name of every plan I see. Ousley the Gardener knows almost all of them by their botanical names, but the numbers to be discriminated and recognized are baffling to the memory and confounding to the judgment. From the small patch where the medicinal herbs stand together I plucked this morning leaves of Balm and Hyssop, Marjoram, Mint, Rue, Sage, Tansy, Taragon, and Wormwood, one half of which were know to me only by the name. The Tarragon not even by that. </p>
Original Format
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diary entry
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Diary, John Quincy Adams, 1827
Description
An account of the resource
President Adams' diary entries from June 1827 detail his regular visits to the White House garden. In this entry he describes the variety of plants in the garden, from fruit trees to common weeds. The President relied on his gardener, John Ousley, to identify many of the plants. Apparently, Adams encountered the living form of tarragon, an herb, for the first time on June 5.
Creator
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John Quincy Adams
Source
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The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: A Digital Collection. Massachusetts Historical Society, 2005. <a href="http://www.masshist.org/jqadiaries/php/doc?id=jqad37_214">View original</a>.
Date
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6/5/1827
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1800-1829
environment
politics & protest
work & play
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00e588abb29c99f4acb7b99557c5658d
Still Image
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Levees on the National Mall
Description
An account of the resource
Levees for flood control were first constructed on the National Mall after the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/343">Great Potomac Flood of 1936</a>. They were north of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/23">Reflecting Pool</a>, extending from the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial</a> to the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a>. This early levee system did not eliminate flood damage. In 1942, flood waters again breached the sea wall of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/430">Tidal Basin</a> and covered the land beyond the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/31">Jefferson Memorial</a>. However, repairs to the Mall's levee system did not happen until 2006, when the basement of the National Archives flooded, threatening the survival of important national documents. New levees include a the construction of a removable barrier on 17th Street crossing the National Mall.
Creator
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D.B. King
Source
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Flickr. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/280113847/in/set-72157594259513614">View original.</a>
Date
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2006
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1920-1949
design & monuments
environment