Architect of the Capitol employees are responsible for the care and preservation of more than 300 works of art, architectural elements, landscape features and more.
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Telegraph Centennial Plaque
Text of the Plaque:
WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT!
1791 1872
SAMUEL F.B. MORSE
THE INVENTOR
The Albany Congress, 1754
In 1754 the British government asked colonial representatives to meet in Albany, New York, to develop a treaty with Native Americans and plan the defense of the colonies against France.
The Birth of Aviation
The Columbus Doors
The Constitutional Convention, 1787
Following the Revolutionary War, the new American government was first organized under the Articles of Confederation, but that document gave the federal government too little authority to be effect
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
In June 1776 five delegates to the Second Continental Congress drafted the Declaration of Independence.
The First Continental Congress, 1774
Delegates from all thirteen colonies met in 1774 in Philadelphia to discuss responses to increased British oppre