Willa Cather Statue
Nebraska gave this statue of Willa Cather to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 2023. Littleton Alston (1958- ) is the first African American sculptor to be represented in this collection.
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William Edgar Borah Statue
This statue of William Edgar Borah was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Idaho in 1947.
William Henry Harrison Beadle Statue
This statue of William Henry Harrison Beadle was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by South Dakota in 1938.
William King Statue
This statue of William King was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Maine in 1878. King served as the first governor of the state of Maine.
William Penn and the Indians
William Penn is shown at center with the Delaware Indians at the time of the Treaty of Shackamaxon. This treaty formalized the purchase of land in Pennsylvania and cemented an amicable relationship between the Quakers and the Indians for almost a hundred years. This scene was that last one on which Constantino Brumidi worked.
Women's Suffrage Parade, 1917
For decades after America won its independence from Great Britain, many of its people still lacked basic rights.
York, 1777
After leaving Baltimore the Congress met briefly in Philadelphia but soon moved to York, Pennsylvania, where it met for nine months in the old Court House.
Yorktown, 1781
At the end of the Revolutionary War, the British are shown laying down their arms against a symbolic sunset.