BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Dupont Circle -- Norris B. Gregg Memorial Bldg/American Coatings Assn (1500 Rhode Island Ave NW)

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1. GREGG_970806_01.JPG: Bell-Morton House In 1882, this house was given to Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel Hubbard as we wedding present by Mabel's father Gardiner Greene Hubbard. The Bells lived here until 1891. While living here, Bell works on the invention of wax disks for recording sound to play on Edison's phonograph. This work would evolve into phonograph records later when he worked in Georgetown. While here, Bell founded and ran the Bell Experimental School which was the first kindergarten for deaf children in America.
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Description of Subject Matter: Embassy of Hungary Unveils Statue of the “Budapest Lad’ Honoring the 60th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight
October 18, 2016 10:47 AM

On Sunday, October 16 the Embassy of Hungary, in collaboration with Hungarian-American organizations across the Washington, D.C. area, erected a statue of the “Budapest Lad” to permanently commemorate the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight on the special occasion of its 60th Anniversary.

After Soviet tanks crushed the 1956 Revolution, thousands of young Hungarians were forced to flee their country and sought out new beginnings and a new lives in the United States. The statue of the “Budapest Lad” honors their memory and the memory of Hungarian freedom fighters everywhere.

The life-size bronze statue of the “Budapest Lad” depicts a typical Hungarian student of the time holding the Hungarian national flag of the Revolutionaries with a hole in the middle where the symbol of the oppressive Communist regime has been cut out.

Speaking at the unveiling ceremony, Minister of National Development of Hungary Miklós Seszták said that the statue “tells the story of thirst for freedom and the strength of a unified nation to stand up for its rights.” “This statue symbolizes the common desires and principles that always bonded or countries and nations together,” added the Minister.

Other VIPs who spoke and were in attendance included Colleen Bell, US Ambassador to Hungary, Zsolt Németh, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian National Assembly, and János Horváth, Ambassador-at-large and former Doyen of the Hungarian National Assembly.

The unveiling ceremony took place in Scott’s Circle at 1500 Rhode Island Ave, NW on the grounds of the new building of the Embassy of Hungary and was followed by a wreath-laying ceremony and a tour of the new Embassy building.

The unveiling of the statue of the “Budapest Lad” was made possible through generous donations by private citizens, ...More...
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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.
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