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Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Memorials
Physical Description
Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall.
The memorial is made up of a plaza including a star-shaped fountain with an eternal flame in the center, bronze sculptures, inscribed glass panels, and a granite wall. It is designed to be accessible to those it honors.
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Title
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American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial
Date
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10/5/2014 (dedicated)
10/24/2000 (authorized)
Coverage
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2000-present
Description
An account of the resource
The first national memorial to specifically honor members of the American armed forces who were permanently disabled during their service opened in 2014. The memorial was proposed to Congress in 1998 by a group led by philanthropist Lois Pope; Jesse Brown, then Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Art Wilson, National Adjutant of the nonprofit Disabled American Veterans. The memorial was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton in 2000. The land on which it is built was transferred from the city to the National Park Service for the memorial. It was dedicated on October 4, 2014.
Source
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Tim Evanson via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/23165290@N00/15268351937/">Flickr</a>
building the mall
design & monuments
military history
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https://mallhistory.org/files/original/966e807daf3ade1f3ccf3296e3681199.jpg
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Event
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Event Type
DC History
Event Sort Date
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19300212
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Title
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US Army Blimp Lands at Lincoln Memorial
Date
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02/12/1930
Coverage
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1920-1949
Description
An account of the resource
In 1930, the US Army landed an open gondola blimp at the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial</a>, on a special trip to honor Lincoln's Birthday. Upon landing, the blimp's pilots placed a wreath at the Memorial. US Army blimps occasionally flew over Washington during practices flights from Langley Field in Virginia, but blimps rarely landed on the Mall.
Source
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/thc1995001697/pp/">View Original</a>.
design & monuments
military history
work & play
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Event
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Event Type
Cultural Gathering
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For sort purposes only. Use YYYYMMDD with no spaces. If no MM or DD, use 00. For multi-day events, use first day.
19451005
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Admiral Nimitz Parade
Description
An account of the resource
In October 1945, World War II Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was honored with a parade in Washington, DC, before being presented with a Gold Star by President Truman for his service as the Commander in Chief of the US Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean areas from 1944 to 1945. Nimitz had represented the United States at the formal surrender of Japan in September 1945. Thousands of sailors, Marines, and women from <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/229">WAVES</a> units marched in his honor. A large replica of the USS Missouri, site of the Japanese surrender, served as the parade's grandstand at the base of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a>.
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Harry S. Truman Library. <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/199211">View Original</a>.
Date
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10/05/1945
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
military history
politics & protest
work & play
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https://mallhistory.org/files/original/1908a900c37a09421352a8fe46fcea68.jpg
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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.
Marble, stone, and bronze statue, less than one story tall.
Location
The location of the interview.
President's Park, between 17th Street NW, and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Memorials
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Title
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Second Division Memorial
Description
An account of the resource
Located within <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/20">President's Park</a> on the National Mall, the Second Division Memorial is dedicated to those members of the Second Infantry Division of the US army who have died while in service. Originally dedicated in 1936 by President Franklin Roosevelt, the memorial honored service in World War I. The flaming sword at the memorial's center represents the defense of Paris from German forces during that conflict. In 1962, two wings were added to the memorial to represent service in World War II and the Korean War.
Creator
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James Earle Fraser
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/thc.5a44627/">View original</a>.
Date
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07/18/1936 (Dedicated)
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
1950-1979
design & monuments
military history
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https://mallhistory.org/files/original/87de42683c0d6d4d1a71790467738e7b.jpg
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Still Image
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Original Format
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photo
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Navy Department, World War I
Description
An account of the resource
For more than five decades, the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/57">Main Navy and Munitions Buildings </a>dominated the scenery along <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/311">Constitution Avenue</a> for a third of a mile west of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a>. Erected in 1918 as "temporary" office buildings to support the vastly expanded World War I military, more than 14,000 military and civilian personnel worked there. Clacking typewriters, ringing as workers returned the carriage to start new lines of text, and jangling telephones echoed in the community work space.
Creator
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US Department of the Navy
Source
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Naval Historical Center, Washington, DC . <a href="https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-52000/NH-52901.html">View original</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1918
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1890-1919
everyday life
military history
work & play
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https://mallhistory.org/files/original/9bd8795247c3b85341bb905eaf58a329.jpg
7c968cea17cfe1a93f62012b15ed6543
Document
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Text
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Eleven-year-old Diana Hopkins has a victory garden, not big but exclusive. <br /><br />It is on the south lawn of the White House, where she lives with her father, Harry Hopkins, special assistant to the President, and Mrs. Hopkins. <br /><br />Diana joined the Nation-wide clamor for space for a victory garden early this spring. A White House gardener set aside a 20-foot-square flower bed near the executive residence and Diana went to work with spade, hoe, rake and vegetable seeds.
Original Format
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Newspaper article
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Diana Hopkins, 11, Has Her Garden on White House Lawn
Description
An account of the resource
Diana Hopkins lived in the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66">White House</a> in the early 1940s with her father Harry, who was a special assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This article reports on the victory garden she was allowed to have on the White House grounds during World War II. Victory Gardens were small personal gardens planted during the war to help reduce civilian demand for food.
Source
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<em>The Washington Post</em>.
Date
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5/11/1943
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
environment
everyday life
military history
work & play
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5022bc3574991ac8e2f5074700d7d4e2
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Document
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<p>General Interest in the Wounded—Their Numbers—Scenes at First Fredericksburgh—Return to Washington Hospitals—Campbell, Patent-Office, Armory-square and Others—Case of a Pennsylvania Soldier—Scenes After Chancellorsville—The Wounded Arriving at Night—June, July, &c., 1863—Death of a New-York Soldier—Winter of 1863–4 at Culpepper and Brandy Station—Return Again to Washington—Picture of One of the Great Government Hospitals—Spring and Summer of 1864—Wounded from Wilderness, Spottsylvania, &c.—Assistance from Home—Characteristic Scene in a Ward—Fall of 1864—Hospitals in New-York and Brooklyn—Government Always Ready and Liberal to Care for Wounded—Forms of Wounds and Diseases—Human Sympathy as a Medical Agent—The Army Surgeons, &c., &c....</p>
<p><strong>COMMENCE WITH WASHINGTON HOSPITALS.</strong></p>
<p>Am now (January, February, &c., 1863,) in and around Washington, daily visiting the hospitals. Am much in Campbell, Patent Office, Eighth-street, H-street, Armory-square and others. Am now able to do a little good, having money, (as almoner of others home) and getting experience.</p>
<p>I would like to give lists of cases, for there is no end to the interesting ones, but it is impossible without making a large volume, or rather several volumes. I must, therefore, let one or two days' visits, at this time, suffice as specimens of scores and hundreds of subsequent ones, through the ensuing Spring, Summer and Fall, and indeed, down to the present week....<br /><br />T<span class="smallcaps">HURSDAY</span>, Jan. 29.—Devoted the main part of the day, from 11 to 3:30 o'clock, to Armory Square Hospital; went pretty thoroughly through Wards F, G, H and I; some 50 cases in each ward. In Ward F supplied the men throughout with writing paper and a stamped envelope each; also some cheerful reading matter; distributed in small portions, about half of it in this ward, to proper subjects, a large jar of first-rate preserved berries; also other small gifts. In Wards G, H and I, found several cases I thought good subjects for small sums of money, which I furnished in each case. The poor wounded men often come up dead broke, and it helps their spirits to have even the small sum I give them. My paper and envelopes all gone, but distributed a good lot of amusing reading matter; also, as I thought judicious, tobacco, oranges, apples, &c. Some very interesting cases in Ward I; C<span class="smallcaps">HARLES</span> M<span class="smallcaps">ILLER</span>, bed No. 19, Company D, Fifty-third Pennsylvania, is only 16 years of age, very bright, courageous boy, left leg amputated below the knee; next bed below him, young lad very sick; gave the two each appropriate gifts; in the bed above, also amputation of the left leg; gave him part of a jar of raspberries; bed No. 1, this ward, gave a small sum; also to a soldier on crutches, sitting on his bed near....</p>
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Title
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Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers
Description
An account of the resource
Walt Whitman regularly visited wounded soldiers <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/307">recovering in hospitals during the Civil War</a> in the Washington area. While consoling patients, Whitman also wrote down many observations during his hospital visits. This article publishes excerpts from his journal.
Source
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<a href="http://www.whitmanarchive.org">The Walt Whitman Archive</a>, Editors Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price. <a href="http://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00200.html">View original</a>
Date
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12/11/1864
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1860-1889
military history
work & play
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https://mallhistory.org/files/original/2dbddf8bd85c76bbbe2e4b114cdcbdeb.jpg
45fe731a086ba03f383c9b5f40f651f1
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Photograph
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Title
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Union soldiers at attention in front of the Capitol
Description
An account of the resource
<a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/303">Union soldiers</a> monopolized the spaces of the National Mall during the Civil War. At the outset of the war the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/59">US Capitol</a> was a work-in-progress. Despite the war Congress pushed for its completion as a symbol that the ideal of a United States would transcend the disunion of the war years. However, early in the war, construction halted as <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/304">Union troops occupied the building</a>. With their eviction in 1862, construction resumed. Statues and forts around the city raised gun salutes for the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/534">installation of the statue</a> on top of the dome in 1863.
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009631455/">View Original</a>.
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1860-1889
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
05/13/1861
building the mall
military history
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Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Ghost Sites
Government Offices
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World War I Temporary Buildings
Description
An account of the resource
During World War I, the federal government built a number of temporary office buildings in Washington to hold all the new workers. The group shown in this photograph stretched across the Mall from north to south just east of 7th Street, visible beyond the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/55">National Museum of Natural History</a> on the left and the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/52">Smithsonian Castle</a> on the right. The smokestacks of the power plant were set apart so they did not obstruct the view of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a> from the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/59">Capitol</a>. This complex was slowly dismantled, with the power plant and central buildings removed by 1936.
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2008007426/">View original</a>.
Date
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1918 (constructed)
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1890-1919
1920-1949
design & monuments
ghost mall
military history
work & play
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Document
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<p>Reaffirming Policy Of Full Participation In The Defense Program By All Persons, Regardless Of Race, Creed, Color, Or National Origin, And Directing Certain Action In Furtherance Of Said Policy</p>
<p>June 25, 1941</p>
<p>WHEREAS it is the policy of the United States to encourage full participation in the national defense program by all citizens of the United States, regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin, in the firm belief that the democratic way of life within the Nation can be defended successfully only with the help and support of all groups within its borders; and</p>
<p>WHEREAS there is evidence that available and needed workers have been barred from employment in industries engaged in defense production solely because of considerations of race, creed, color, or national origin, to the detriment of workers' morale and of national unity:</p>
<p>NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, and as a prerequisite to the successful conduct of our national defense production effort, I do hereby reaffirm the policy of the United States that there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin, and I do hereby declare that it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations, in furtherance of said policy and of this order, to provide for the full and equitable participation of all workers in defense industries, without discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin;</p>
<p>And it is hereby ordered as follows:<br /> 1. All departments and agencies of the Government of the United States concerned with vocational and training programs for defense production shall take special measures appropriate to assure that such programs are administered without discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin; <br />2. All contracting agencies of the Government of the United States shall include in all defense contracts hereafter negotiated by them a provision obligating the contractor not to discriminate against any worker because of race, creed, color, or national origin; <br />3. There is established in the Office of Production Management a Committee on Fair Employment Practice, which shall consist of a chairman and four other members to be appointed by the President. The Chairman and members of the Committee shall serve as such without compensation but shall be entitled to actual and necessary transportation, subsistence and other expenses incidental to performance of their duties. The Committee shall receive and investigate complaints of discrimination in violation of the provisions of this order and shall take appropriate steps to redress grievances which it finds to be valid. The Committee shall also recommend to the several departments and agencies of the Government of the United States and to the President all measures which may be deemed by it necessary or proper to effectuate the provisions of this order.</p>
<p>Franklin D. Roosevelt <br /> The White House,<br />June 25, 1941.</p>
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Executive Order 8802
Description
An account of the resource
On June 25, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 which prohibited racial and other discrimination in the defense industry. The Executive Order was a partial response by the White House to a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/329">planned march by African American activists on the National Mall to protest discrimination in the defense industry</a>. Defense jobs were a major source of employment even though the United States was not yet at war.
Source
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National Archives at Washington, DC. <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/300005">View original</a>.
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1920-1949
Date
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6/25/1941
civil rights
military history
politics & protest
presidents
work & play