BGuthrie Photos: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (1997)

DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (1997):

Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.

Description of Pictures: Tree: Black Hills Spruce from Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota

Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon

underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.

Slide Show: Want to see the pictures as a slide show? [Slideshow]

Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]

Share: Facebook Twitter Digg
[1] CAPX_971204_01.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[2] CAPX_971204_02.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[3] CAPX_971204_03.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[4] CAPX_971204_04.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[5] CAPX_971204_12.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[6] CAPX_971204_13.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[7] CAPX_971204_15.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[8] CAPX_971204_19.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[9] CAPX_971204_20.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[10] CAPX_971204_21.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[11] CAPX_971204_22.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[12] CAPX_971204_25.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[13] CAPX_971204_27.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[14] CAPX_971204_29.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[15] CAPX_971204_31.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[16] CAPX_971204_33.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[17] CAPX_971204_36.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[18] CAPX_971204_37.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[19] CAPX_971204_40.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[20] CAPX_971204_42.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[21] CAPX_971204_44.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[22] CAPX_971204_46.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[23] CAPX_971204_48.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[24] CAPX_971204_50.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[25] CAPX_971204_52.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[26] CAPX_971204_53.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[27] CAPX_971204_54.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[28] CAPX_971204_55.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[29] CAPX_971204_57.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CAPX_971204_01.JPG: US Capitol; Nighttime w/Christmas tree Here's the Capitol Christmas tree.
2. CAPX_971204_02.JPG: US Capitol; Nighttime w/Christmas tree Another shot with the Capitol Christmas tree.
3. CAPX_971204_03.JPG: Capitol W (Washington Monument); night and Christmas A view from the portico of the Capitol. The Capitol Christmas tree is there in front. The reflection of the Washington Monument appears in front of the Grant Memorial.
4. CAPX_971204_04.JPG: Capitol W (Washington Monument); night and Christmas Here's a nighttime view from the Capitol toward the Mall during Christmas. The Capitol Christmas tree is there on the left while the White House Christmas tree would be on the Ellipse on the other side of the Washington Monument. You can see the Washington Monument as well as the Lincoln Monument at its base.
Multi Column: Number of columns of thumbnails to appear per page (normally defaults to 3): [1 col] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
Wikipedia Description: Capitol Christmas Tree
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Capitol Christmas Tree (formerly the Capitol Holiday Tree) is the decorated tree that is erected annually on the West Front Lawn of the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the Christmas holiday season. The selection, installation, and decoration of the tree are all overseen by the Superintendent of the Capitol Grounds of the Architect of the Capitol (AOC).
Records of the AOC indicate that a Christmas Tree was purchased in 1919; however, it was not until 1964, one year after the suggestion of John W. McCormack, the 53rd Speaker of the House, that a procedure was established for the installation of a yearly tree.
The 1963 tree was a live Douglas-fir, purchased from a Pennsylvania nursery. It was re-decorated each year through 1967 when it was severely damaged in a wind storm and subsequently died as a result of root damage. After the 1963 tree died, white pines from Maryland were cut down and put on display for the 1968 and 1969 seasons. Beginning in 1970, trees have been provided by the U.S. Forest Service from various National Forests.
The Capitol Christmas Tree is traditionally lit during a ceremony at the beginning of December, and remains lit each night though New Year's Day.
Name controversy
In the late 1990s, the Capitol Christmas Tree was renamed to the Capitol Holiday Tree. There was never a clear explanation as to why the name change occurred, but the name change raised controversy. On November 29, 2005, the day after the 2005 tree arrived from New Mexico, the tree was renamed the Capitol Christmas Tree at the request of Dennis Hastert, the 59th Speaker of the House.
Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.) I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
Directly Related Pages: Other pages with content (DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (yyyy)) directly related to this one: [Display ALL photos on one page]:
- 2022_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2022) (79 photos from 2022)
- 2021_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2021) (101 photos from 2021)
- 2020_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2020) (18 photos from 2020)
- 2019_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2019) (57 photos from 2019)
- 2018_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol (exterior) -- Christmas Tree (2018) (55 photos from 2018)
- 2017_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2017, plus tail-end shots from 2016) (106 photos from 2017)
- 2016_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2016) (11 photos from 2016)
- 2015_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2015) (42 photos from 2015)
- 2013_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2013) (26 photos from 2013)
- 2012_DC_CapitolX: DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2012) (10 photos from 2012)
- ...More (List all 20 pages)...
Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [Capitols] [Nighttime] [US Capitol (Everything)] [US Capitol (Non-Events)] [Winter] [US Capitol Complex]
1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
Limiting Text: You can turn off all of this text by clicking this link: [Thumbnails Only]
Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].