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SCAMDI_150816_027.JPG: Samuel Chase
by John Beale Bordley
SCAMDI_150816_033.JPG: William Paca
by John Beale Bordley
SCAMDI_150816_055.JPG: The Senate Chamber
SCAMDI_150816_060.JPG: Honoring Maryland's Revolutionary Past
SCAMDI_150816_066.JPG: The American's Creed
[by William Tyler Page]
I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.
Erected Dec 23, 1919 136th anniversary of Washington's Resignation as Commander-in-Chief -- Emerson C. Harrington, Gov.
SCAMDI_150816_077.JPG: The State House Annex
A New Addition to the Old State House
SCAMDI_150816_093.JPG: Maryland's Four Signers
SCAMDI_150816_110.JPG: Washington Resigns
SCAMDI_150816_114.JPG: Washington Resigns
SCAMDI_150816_117.JPG: Washington Resigning His Commission
SCAMDI_150816_120.JPG: The Archives Room
The 18th Century State House
SCAMDI_150816_138.JPG: Marquis de Lafayette, 1975
Robert Templeton after Charles Willson Peale
SCAMDI_150816_148.JPG: John Shaw: Cabinetmaker of Annapolis and Caretaker of the State House
SCAMDI_150816_164.JPG: The State House Dome
SCAMDI_150816_168.JPG: The State House Dome
SCAMDI_150816_171.JPG: Treasury Chest
SCAMDI_150816_175.JPG: Treasury Chest
SCAMDI_150816_178.JPG: A Trip Into the Dome
SCAMDI_150816_182.JPG: A Trip Into the Dome
SCAMDI_150816_198.JPG: Maryland State House
Four Centuries of History
SCAMDI_150816_202.JPG: The Maryland State House
SCAMDI_150816_208.JPG: 1772
Front Elevation of the State House, by Joseph Horatio Anderson
SCAMDI_150816_209.JPG: 1788
Perspective Drawing of the Maryland State House by Charles Willson Peale, 1788
SCAMDI_150816_214.JPG: 1789
Maryland State House, by Charles Willson Peale, 1789
SCAMDI_150816_218.JPG: 1789
Floor Plan of the Maryland State House, 1789
SCAMDI_150816_222.JPG: 1858
Bird's Eye View of Annapolis, by Edward Sachse, c 1858
SCAMDI_150816_227.JPG: 1881
Governor's Reception Room, c 1881-1905
SCAMDI_150816_231.JPG: 1902
Court of Appeals, c 1902
SCAMDI_150816_235.JPG: 1907
State House Annex, 1907
SCAMDI_150816_242.JPG: The Rotunda
SCAMDI_150816_244.JPG: Matthew Alexander Henson
Co-discoverer of the North Pole
with
Admiral Robert Edwin Peary
April 6, 1909
Born: August 8, 1866 -- Died: March 9, 1955
Son of Maryland
Exemplification of courage, fortitude and patriotism, whose valiant deeds of noble devotion under the command of Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, in pioneer Arctic exploration and discovery, established everlasting prestige and glory for his state and country
SCAMDI_150816_256.JPG: Visitors to the Dome
SCAMDI_150816_258.JPG: Revolutionary Annapolis
SCAMDI_150816_261.JPG: The ratification of the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784 made Annapolis the first peacetime capital of the new United States of America.
SCAMDI_150816_266.JPG: "... YE fathers of your country; friends of liberty and mankind, behold our chains! Lend an ear to the voice of oppression -- commiserate the afflictions of a helpless and abused part of the human species. To you we look up for justice -- deny it not -- it is our right."
-- Vox Africaorum, 1783
SCAMDI_150816_272.JPG: Paying the State's Bills
SCAMDI_150816_278.JPG: Making More Space for the Public
SCAMDI_150816_287.JPG: An Annapolis Lady Witnesses History
SCAMDI_150816_289.JPG: Senator's Desk
SCAMDI_150816_292.JPG: Senator's Desk
SCAMDI_150816_297.JPG: "That after the year 1800 of the Christian era, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said states, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1784
SCAMDI_150816_301.JPG: Announcing the Peace
SCAMDI_150816_308.JPG: Creating a Great Seal for a New Nation
SCAMDI_150816_315.JPG: An Historic Ceremony is Created
SCAMDI_150816_320.JPG: America's First Foreign Minister
SCAMDI_150816_326.JPG: Washington Bows to Congress
SCAMDI_150816_331.JPG: George Washington left his home, Mount Vernon, on May 4, 1775; he would not return as a private citizen until December 24, 1783, a period of more than eight years.
SCAMDI_150816_333.JPG: "... the Gallery full of Ladies, the General seem'd so much affected himself that everybody felt for him... I think the World never produced a great man & very few so good."
-- Molly Ridout to Anne Taske Ogle, January 16, 1784
SCAMDI_150816_336.JPG: "It is the unanimous opinion of this house, that the general assembly present the Stadt house and public circle in the City of Annapolis... to the honorable congress, for their use."
-- Resolution of the Maryland House of Delegates, May 24, 1783
SCAMDI_150816_339.JPG: "Genl. Washington then had his last audience of Congress, laid down his commission and bid a final adieu to them and to all public life. His address on the occasion was worthy of him."
-- Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, December 24, 1783
SCAMDI_150816_345.JPG: An Annapolis Lady Witnesses the Resignation
SCAMDI_150816_348.JPG: "In the evening the Governor gave a ball at the State house... The General dances in every set, that all the ladies might... get a touch of him."
-- Congressman James Tilton to Gunning Bedford, Jr., December 25, 1783
SCAMDI_150816_354.JPG: General Washington Has Arrived!
SCAMDI_150816_361.JPG: Dinners, Balls, and Toasts: Annapolis Celebrates Washington's Resignation
SCAMDI_150816_371.JPG: "The Spectators all wept..."
SCAMDI_150816_381.JPG: Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown
by Charles Willson Peale, 1784
SCAMDI_150816_384.JPG: Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown
SCAMDI_150816_387.JPG: "... write to Mr. Peale... to procure... the pursuit of his Excellency general Washington, at full length... in grateful remembrance of that most illustrious character."
-- Maryland House of Delegates to Governor Thomas Sim Lee, November 23, 1781
SCAMDI_150816_394.JPG: Tench Tilghman's Swords
SCAMDI_150816_430.JPG: "I wis[h]ed to the founder of a collection of Portraits, which has the promise of becoming a rich and highly valuable Gallery of distinguished men..."
-- Charles Willson Peale, July 1824
SCAMDI_150816_459.JPG: Heroes of the Revolution
SCAMDI_150816_465.JPG: Witnesses to the Resignation
SCAMDI_150816_478.JPG: Revolutionary Leaders
SCAMDI_150816_484.JPG: Restoring a National Treasure
SCAMDI_150816_501.JPG: Furnishing the Old Senate Chamber
SCAMDI_150816_505.JPG: George Washington Resigns his Commission
SCAMDI_150816_508.JPG: William Pitt: "The Great Commoner"
SCAMDI_150816_512.JPG: President's Niche and Dais
SCAMDI_150816_518.JPG: Congress Assembled:
Furnishing the Old Senate
SCAMDI_150816_522.JPG: The View from the Gallery
SCAMDI_150816_555.JPG: Thomas Johnson
Born November 4, 1732, Calvert County, Maryland
Died October 26, 1819, Frederick County, Maryland
First and three times governor of Maryland, chief justice General Court of Maryland 1790-1791, associate justice Supreme Court 1791-1793, member of commission which established the city of Washington, member of the Continental Congress, member of the General Assembly of Maryland, brigadier general Maryland militia 1776, nominated George Washington for Commander in Chief of all the American forces June 15, 1775, honored as a patriot, distinguished as a statesman, respected as a judge.
Erected by the Maryland Society Sons of the American Revolution, 1928
SCAMDI_150816_558.JPG: Commemorative of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence
A memorial to those patriots:
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton
Samuel Chase
who as representatives of the colony of Maryland subscribed to that document which became the cornerstone in the building of a free and independent states.
Erected by the Citizens of Annapolis
July 4, 1926
SCAMDI_150816_562.JPG: Restoration of Old State House
SCAMDI_150816_567.JPG: Maryland in the War of 1812
SCAMDI_150816_571.JPG: Watchful Waiting, September 1814 (detail)
Richard Schlecht
SCAMDI_150816_577.JPG: Maryland in the Civil War
SCAMDI_150816_596.JPG: History of the Old House of Delegates Chamber
SCAMDI_150816_598.JPG: Old House of Delegates Chamber
A Victorian Era Chamber
SCAMDI_150816_601.JPG: Old House of Delegates Chamber, c 1876-1893
Old House of Delegates Chamber, 2012
SCAMDI_150816_614.JPG: The Burning of the Peggy Stewart
Francis Blackwell Mayer, 1896
SCAMDI_150816_621.JPG: The Planting of the Colony of Maryland
Francis Blackwell Mayer, 1893
SCAMDI_150816_628.JPG: Historical Paintings by Francis Blackwell Mayer
SCAMDI_150816_636.JPG: Bringing a Historic Photograph to Life
SCAMDI_150816_642.JPG: Old House of Delegates Chamber, c 1876-1893
Old House of Delegates Chamber, c 1894-1896
SCAMDI_150816_651.JPG: Important 19th Century Events in Maryland
SCAMDI_150816_662.JPG: The Expansion of Rights in Maryland
SCAMDI_150816_701.JPG: The Planting of the Colony of Maryland
Francis Blackwell Mayer, 1893
SCAMDI_150816_763.JPG: Maryland Remembers:
By the dedication of this plaque; she leaves for posterity evidence of her remembrance of her nearly 63,000 native sons who served in the Union forces and the more than 22,000 in those of the Confederacy in the war between the states.
In commemorating the centennial of that great struggle between the citizens of the temporarily divided nation in the 1860's, the Maryland Civil War Centennial Commission did not attempt to decide who was right and who was wrong, or to make decisions on other controversial issues.
On the contrary, its objective was solely to commemorate important events of the war within the state and to collect and preserve documents and information associated with her involvement.
By so doing, it seeks to pay tribute to those who fought and died, as well as to the citizens who, during the Civil War, tried to do their duty as they saw it.
Erected and dedicated October 5, 1964
SCAMDI_150816_770.JPG: USS Maryland Silver Service
SCAMDI_150816_772.JPG: State House Caucus Room
A Legislative Meeting Room
SCAMDI_150816_792.JPG: The House of Delegates Chamber
SCAMDI_150816_795.JPG: Honoring Former Speakers
SCAMDI_150816_807.JPG: Winfield Scott Schley
Port Hudson ... 1863
Chincha Island ... 1865
Korea ... 1871
Greeley Relief Expe ... 1884
Valparaiso ... 1891
Santiago .... 1898
Erected by the State of Maryland
SCAMDI_150816_823.JPG: Bureau Bros.
Bronze founders Phila.
SCAMDI_150816_833.JPG: Ernest W. Kayser
Paris 1903 ...
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2015 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
I retired from the US Census Bureau in god-forsaken Suitland, Maryland on my 58th birthday in May. Yee ha!
Trips this year:
a quick trip to Florida.
two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and
my 10th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles).
Ego Strokes: Carolyn Cerbin used a Kevin Costner photo in her USA Today article. Miss DC pictures were used a few times in the Washington Post.
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