BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum

DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum:

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

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] SEW_031106_06.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[2] SEW_031106_08.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[3] SEW_031106_10.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[4] SEW_031106_14.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[5] SEW_031106_16.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[6] SEW_031106_19.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[7] SEW_031106_21.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[8] SEW_031106_23.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[9] SEW_031106_27.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[10] SEW_031106_35.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[11] SEW_031106_40.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[12] SEW_031106_62.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[13] SEW_031106_72.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[14] SEW_031106_82.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. SEW_031106_08.JPG: The desk is Henry Clay's. It was used by him while he was speaker of the House of Representatives when the national government settled into the Old Brick Capitol after the British burned down the real one in 1814. The National Woman's Party moved into the Old Brick Capitol from 1922-29 after which is was torn down to make room for the Library of Congress.
2. SEW_031106_10.JPG: Alice Paul
3. SEW_031106_14.JPG: Alice Paul when she was younger
4. SEW_031106_16.JPG: Lola Maverick Lloyd
5. SEW_031106_21.JPG: This had been Alice Paul's bed and bedroom when she lived here. One of the speakers mentioned that the fireplace mantle has knicks where she stuck clothes hangers so she didn't have to take the time to walk over to the closet to hang them up.
6. SEW_031106_72.JPG: Inez Mulholland Boissevain. Said to be the most attractive woman in the women's movement at the time, she led the women's parade (in a white outfit on a white horse) the day of Wilson's inauguration. It mentions that she "died for the freedom of women," dying young from illnesses brought about by her incarceration.
7. SEW_031106_82.JPG: This is a photo through a mirror so positions are a little odd
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]
Wikipedia Description: Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States, is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal-rights movements.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.

It was built on a tract of land originally granted to Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore by King Charles I of England. The property was divided several times, and it was Daniel Carroll who ultimately ceded much of the land to the United States as a site for the new capital. After Washington was laid out, Carroll bought a small parcel of land and in 1799 sold the property to Robert Sewall. According to his tax records, Sewall built the main house in 1800. He attached it to a small one-room farmhouse believed by some experts to date from 1750. Tradition has it that British troops set fire to the house during the War of 1812. It is believed that gunshots from or behind the Sewall residence provoked the attack.

The house has undergone several architectural changes and restorations. The house remained in the possession of Sewall descendants until 1922, when it was purchased by Senator Porter H. Dale of Vermont. In 1929, Dale sold it to the National Woman's Party, and it has been the party's headquarters ever since.

Today, the house is also a museum that houses many banners, documents, pieces of furniture, and other artifacts of the women's suffrage and equal rights movement, as well as sculptures and portraits of women involved in the movements.

The Sewall-Belmont House is located at 144 Constitution Ave., NE. It is open Wedneday through Sunday from noon to 4:00 pm. Guided tours begin at noon, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, and 3:00 pm. The nearest Metro stop is Union Station.
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 -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum) directly related to this one: [Display ALL photos on one page]:
- 2021_DC_Sewall_Belmont: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum (13 photos from 2021)
- 2016_DC_Sewall_Belmont: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum (4 photos from 2016)
- 2015_DC_Sewall_Belmont: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum (41 photos from 2015)
- 2012_DC_Sewall_Belmont: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum (141 photos from 2012)
- 2007_DC_Sewall_Belmont: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum (2 photos from 2007)
- 2002_DC_Sewall_Belmont: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum (10 photos from 2002)
Sort of Related Pages: Still more pages here that have content somewhat related to this one :
- 2003_DC_Clift_031106: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House -- Eleanor Clift at "Iron Jawed Angels" preview (18 photos from 2003)
- 2015_DC_Alice_Pre_150930: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House -- Alice Award (2015) -- Setup and Pre-Event Mingling (202 photos from 2015)
- 2015_DC_Alice_Program_150930: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House -- Alice Award (2015) -- Program/Awards (62 photos from 2015)
- 2015_DC_Alice_Post_150930: DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House -- Alice Award (2015) -- Luncheon and Post-event Mingling (141 photos from 2015)
Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [History 1800s (excl wars)] [History 1900s (excl wars)] [War of 1812] [Display ALL War of 1812 photos]
2003 photos: Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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].