BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Callboxes

DC -- Callboxes:

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Description of Pictures: Including the callboxes installed along Rhode Island Avenue by Charles Bergen Studios ( http://www.charlesbergenstudios.com/rhode-island-ave-call-boxes ).
Also the new women's callboxes installed by Charles Bergen Studios:

FYI

Thompson's Restaurant Site, African American Heritage Trail
In 1950 the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws, a multi-racial civil rights advocacy group led by Mary Church Terrell, engaged in sit-in demonstrations in order to test the 1872 and 1873 DC laws outlawing segregation in public places, specifically including restaurants, soda fountains, barber shops, and hotels, among others. The laws had been dropped from the DC Code in 1901 but had never been formally repealed. The case went to the Supreme Court as District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc. in 1953. In a landmark decision, the Court deemed the 19th-century laws still valid, effectively ending legal support for discrimination in public places.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CALLBX_190111_05.JPG: Dupont Circle Diverse Visions | One Neighborhood Police Call Boxes such as this one (originally painted blue) were installed in the District after the Civil War. Officers on foot patrol used this secure telegraph system to contact the station, accessing the box with a now highly collectible "gold key." This system was used until the late 1970s when it was abandoned in favor of more modern communication methods. Connecticut Ave. from Lafayette Square to Ashmead Place was just a well-worn trail for many years, after L'Enfant made it a prominent diagonal in his 1792 plan. The route was known as "the road to Holmead's" because of the family-owned cemetery at this very location. The mansion behind you at 1701 20th St. was built in 1890 by the prominent architectural firm, Hornblower and Marshall. One of dozens in the neighborhood built of pink sandstone and red brick, it is the only such building whose exterior color looks as it did in 1890. Thanks to sandblasting to remove the effects of auto exhaust, the building is not as dark as its peers. Built in 1922, the group of shops across Connecticut Ave. (1700 block), was the first building north of Dupont Circle designed for commercial use. At 1614 20th St., a block south, stands an exuberant Romanesque Revival house built in 1891 (left). The mural at 1736 Connecticut Ave. (below) was originally designed for the Q St./Dupont Circle Metro exit under the mayor's summer jobs program. It was projected onto the wall and painted using pigments that last more than 100 years. Artist | G. Byron Peck G. Byron Peck, resident of DC, has used "The Fountain" in many of the 80 murals he has created in the United States and abroad. He teaches at DC museums and universities, and has won numerous awards. Tour guide, map and artist information for all 22 boxes available at www.DupontCircleCallBox.com
2. CALLBX_190123_01.JPG: Dupont Circle Diverse Visions | One Neighborhood Fire Fact | November 28, 1911 DC's first motorized fire engine was placed in service at Engine Company 24. Its engine house was the first to be built without a stable and manure pit. Fire alarm boxes such as this one (originally painted red) were installed in the District after the Civil War. Telegraphs transmitted the box number (top) to a fire alarm center. This system was used until the 1970s when the boxes were converted to a telephone system. By the 1990s, the callbox system had been replaced by the 911 system and was abandoned. After the Civil War, the area around Dupont Circle developed rapidly. If you look north to the hill on the horizon, you can see where John and Mary Henderson built their mansion (1888). As a senator from Missouri, John (1836-1911) authored one of the anti-slavery amendments and voted against the removal of President Andrew Johnson. Mary (1841-1931) built the first "embassy row" between 2600 and 2800 16th St., and gave the Federal Government the land that became Meridian Hill Park, but only after she had tried strenuously to locate first the White House, then the Lincoln Memorial there. At the northwest corner of 17th and P Sts. stood the Syphax Mansion, home of descendants of slaves owned by Robert E. Lee's father-in-law at Arlington House. The Syphax family has been prominent in DC education. At 16th and P Sts. is the Foundry United Methodist Church (dedicated in 1904, pictured at left), where President and Mrs. Clinton were parishioners. Artist | Supon Phornirunlit Originally from Thailand, Supon came to the U.S.A. in 1979 and settled first in Dupont Circle. His design studio has earned over 1,000 industry awards. He has written nearly three dozen graphic design books. Tour guide, map and artist information for all 22 boxes available at: www.DupontCircleCallBox.com
3. CALLBX_190123_23.JPG: Dupont Circle Art on Call The Dupont Circle Art on Call project explores neighborhood history and local fire and police events. It also celebrates our diverse political, artistic and intellectual community by presenting original artwork by 22 local artists featuring the hub of our neighborhood. Dupont Circle and the beautiful fountains designed by Daniel Chester French. Art on Call is a program of Cultural Tourism DC with support from DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development District Department of Transportation This call box is sponsored by: Abdo Development Dupont Circle Art on Call Corporate Sponsor PNC Bank This community project also supported by Dupont Circle Association and the Dupont Circle Conservancy, Inc. and generous donations from community residents and businesses. See all 22 Dupont Circle Call Boxes! Development Committee Members: Marilyn Newton, Chair Michael Beidler Phil Carney Elaine Faye Carol Galaty Bill Glew Gil Hill Steve Hoglund Maureen Lynch Gary McLeod Amanda McNally James H. Mears Gerald Allen Schwinn Tour guide, map and artist information available at: www.DupontCircleCallBox.com Graphic design courtesy of: e-lanestudio Fabrication: Gelberg Signs
4. CALLBX_190315_04.JPG: Dupont Circle Diverse Visions | One Neighborhood Fire Fact | November 28, 1911 DC's first motorized fire engine was placed in service at Engine Company 24. Its engine house was the first to be built without a stable and manure pit. Fire alarm boxes such as this one (originally painted red) were installed in the District after the Civil War. Telegraphs transmitted the box number (top) to a fire alarm center. This system was used until the 1970s when the boxes were converted to a telephone system. By the 1990s, the callbox system had been replaced by the 911 system and was abandoned. After the Civil War, the area around Dupont Circle developed rapidly. If you look north to the hill on the horizon, you can see where John and Mary Henderson built their mansion (1888). As a senator from Missouri, John (1836-1911) authored one of the anti-slavery amendments and voted against the removal of President Andrew Johnson. Mary (1841-1931) built the first "embassy row" between 2600 and 2800 16th St., and gave the Federal Government the land that became Meridian Hill Park, but only after she had tried strenuously to locate first the White House, then the Lincoln Memorial there. At the northwest corner of 17th and P Sts. stood the Syphax Mansion, home of descendants of slaves owned by Robert E. Lee's father-in-law at Arlington House. The Syphax family has been prominent in DC education. At 16th and P Sts. is the Foundry United Methodist Church (dedicated in 1904, pictured at left), where President and Mrs. Clinton were parishioners. Artist | Supon Phornirunlit Originally from Thailand, Supon came to the U.S.A. in 1979 and settled first in Dupont Circle. His design studio has earned over 1,000 industry awards. He has written nearly three dozen graphic design books. Tour guide, map and artist information for all 22 boxes available at: www.DupontCircleCallBox.com
5. CALLBX_190327_07.JPG: D.C.F.D. In memory of Lieutenant Kevin McRae killed in the line of duty the 6th day of May 2015 Box 264
6. CALLBX_190327_12.JPG: I'm not used to a police callbox which actually has a phone in it.
7. CALLBX_190413_12.JPG: Forest Hills Neighborhood Art on Call Soapstone Valley Here the Nocotchtank Indians quarried soapstone and carved vessels. Archeologist William Henry Holmes studied prehistoric workshops in this valley and other parts of the Rock Creek Watershed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Artist: Mary Belcher
8. CALLBX_190413_52.JPG: Forest Hills Neighborhood Art on Call Flora and Fauna of Rock Creek Park Artist: Rebecca Osten
9. CALLBX_190507_12.JPG: Artwork featured on this callbox was created by Diane Corea for the 1998 National Cherry Blossom Festival. The original was digitally created using Adobe Illustrator software.
10. CALLBX_190528_05.JPG: Artwork featured on this callbox is an oil painting created by Ann Marie Williams for the 2006 National Cherry Blossom Festival
11. CALLBX_190528_07.JPG: Artwork featured on this callbox is an oil painting created by Ann Marie Williams for the 2006 National Cherry Blossom Festival
12. CALLBX_190528_13.JPG: ADA: Landmark Declaration of Equality for Americans with Disabilities "More than two decades ago many of us in the disability community concluded that Americans with disabilities would never achieve full, productive citizenship and this nation made a firm statement of law protecting their civil rights. The Americans with Disabilities Act is such a law." "Most importantly, ADA is a landmark commandment of fundamental human morality. It is the world's first declaration of equality for people with disabilities by any nation. It will proclaim to America and to the world that people with disabilities are fully human; that paternalistic, discriminatory, segregationist attitudes are no longer acceptable; and that henceforth people with disabilities must be accorded the same personal respect and the same social and economic opportunities as other people. ADA opens the doors of opportunity for millions of isolated dependent Americans to become employees, taxpayers and welcome participants in the life of their communities. It prepares the way for the emancipation of more than half a billion of the world's most oppressed people." "I believe that we will unite to fulfill that responsibility. Because I believe in you, the patriots of ADA. And I believe in you, the patriots to be. Together we have overcome. Together we shall overcome." Excerpts from Dart's writing ADA Landmark Declaration of Equality, published by Worklife, 1990 Fall Issue by the President's Committee of Employment of People with Disabilities
13. CALLBX_190528_20.JPG: Patriots of the ADA
14. CALLBX_190528_22.JPG: "I now lift my pen to sign this American Disabilities Act and say let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down." -- President George H. W. Bush Signing Ceremony Americans with Disablities Act July 26, 1990 South Lawn of the White House Justin Dart, Jr. 1910-2002 Outstanding leader of the disability, civil and human rights movement. One of the architects of the ADA. Recipient of the 1993 Hubert Humphrey Civil Rights Award by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, recipient of the 1998 Presidential Medal of Freedom for President Clinton, and may other awards. Longtime resident of Southwest Washington, DC. Inspiration to people with disabilities everywhere.
15. CALLBX_190528_32.JPG: July 24, 2010 20th Anniversary of ADA Southwest DC Honors Justin Dart, Jr. and the American With Disabilities Act Justin Dart Jr. moved to Southwest Washington to work for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As an energetic neighbor rushing through the lobby in his wheelchair, his Southwest DC neighbors fondly remember Justin. Never without his cowboy hat and boots from his home state of Texas, or his wife Yoshiko from Japan, Justin accomplished wonders for Americans with disabilities for the passage and implementation of the ADA, right up to the time of his death in 2002. His friends and family continue to work for the rights of people with disabilities. Justin Dart, Jr. lived in Waterside Towers at 907 6th Street, SW for many years. Richard Bryant Treanor, Southwest artist, author, lawyer and disability advocate, produced the painting of Justin Dart, Jr. Konoka Izumi and Asuka Sato worked with Yoshiko Dart in creating the collage celebrating the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. William Marshall, Niles White, and Joseph Xavier, Southwest friends and neighbors, painted the basic call box. Gelberg Signs fabricated and installed the artwork in the Call Box and the ADA Plaques on the short base.
16. CALLBX_190528_39.JPG: Artwork features on this callbox is a colored pencil drawing created by Carol Tomasik for the 2009 National Cherry Blossom Festival.
17. CALLBX_190528_43.JPG: Artwork features on this callbox is a colored pencil drawing created by Carol Tomasik for the 2009 National Cherry Blossom Festival.
18. CALLBX_190528_48.JPG: Artwork features on this callbox is a watercolor created by Jocelyn Boblink for the 1997 National Cherry Blossom Festival
19. CALLBX_190619_03.JPG: Everyday People Columbia Heights Art on Call World in the Park Youth from the Latin American Youth Center–Art + Media House used cameras and microphones to explore the changing faces of Columbia Heights' people and places. Collaborating with community artists, youth researched neighborhood history, interviewed residents, and uncovered what Columbia Heights means to them today. See the neighborhood through the eyes of these youth. Then look around you and take in the face of Columbia Heights from where you stand. Celebrate the people of Columbia Heights -– both longtime and newer residents, elders and the young -– that add to the vitality and vibrancy of this community. Stories on Call Take a minute and listen to the neighborhood. You can reach our Stories on Call by dialing: 1-800-321-2474, and then press #10. Art on Call Police and fire call boxes were installed throughout the capital starting in the 1860s and remained in use until 1976. Before the 911 emergency call system, two-way radios and walkie-talkies; call boxes were vital for emergency communication. Now unused, these beautiful iron structures remain part our streets. Art on Call is a city-wide project of Cultural Tourism DC, to transform Washington's abandoned call boxes into artistic neighborhood icons. Art on Call is a program of Cultural Tourism DC, with support from: DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, DC Creates Public Art Program, District Department of Transportation, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. All work produced by youth from the Latin American Youth Center – Art + Media House For more information visit – www.ArtMediaHouse.org
20. CALLBX_190706_005.JPG: The callboxes installed along Rhode Island Avenue by Charles Bergen Studios ( http://www.charlesbergenstudios.com/rhode-island-ave-call-boxes )
21. CALLBX_190706_019.JPG: Maryland and Washington Railway
22. CALLBX_190706_039.JPG: Rhode Island Avenue Trolley Trail 2002
23. CALLBX_190706_048.JPG: Bo Diddley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Clash. His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accent hambone rhythm, is a cornerstone of hip hop, rock, and pop music. In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2017. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Diddley is also recognized for his technical innovations, including his distinctive rectangular guitar, with its unique booming, resonant, shimmering tones.
24. CALLBX_190706_055.JPG: Ooh Baby Dearest Darling I'm a Man
25. CALLBX_190706_059.JPG: Say Man Road Runner Diddley Daddy
26. CALLBX_190706_061.JPG: I'm a Man Pretty Thing Crackin Up
27. CALLBX_190706_095.JPG: Road Runner Diddley Daddy Ooh Baby
28. CALLBX_190706_096.JPG: Crackin Up Say Man Road Runner
29. CALLBX_190706_097.JPG: Ooh Baby Dearest Darling I'm a Man
30. CALLBX_190706_099.JPG: I'm a Man Pretty Thing Crackin Up
31. CALLBX_190706_134.JPG: Rhode Island Avenue Retail
32. CALLBX_190706_143.JPG: United Radio Highway Auto Supply Haas Hardware
33. CALLBX_190706_146.JPG: Northeast Bldg Assn Mo Bull Grocer Grimes Pharmacist
34. CALLBX_190706_172.JPG: Northeast Bldg Assn Mo Bull Grocer Grimes Pharmacist
35. CALLBX_190706_180.JPG: Sacred to the memory of my dear husband Benjamin Harris Died Feb. 18 1900 Aged 78 Years
36. CALLBX_190904_11.JPG: July 11, 2019 Notice: The restoration and transformation of this call box is funded by the DC Commission of Arts and Humanities and the Downtown Business Improvement District (BID). This is a work in progress and being managed by the Downtown BID. Do not alter the box in any way. If you have any questions contact the Downtown BID. Email: info@downtowndc.org Phone: 202-638-3232
37. CALLBX_191017_004.JPG: Downtown BID Callboxes DowntownDC Business Improvement District Callboxes, Washington, DC. Bronze Portraits of four African American Women and five Caucasian Women who helped shape Washington, DC. The Artwork is located on nine historic cast iron fire and police callboxes. Charles Bergen Studios was selected by the Downtown BID in a national artist call to create this artwork. The BID secured matching grant funding from the DCCAH for this $175,000.00 project. In honor of the 100th Anniversary of Woman's Suffrage in 2020, artwork depicting nine extraordinary woman who worked, lived and or were associated with the locations of the Callboxes will be created. Bronze relief portraits of nine women as well as painted stainless steel which has been waterjet cut, with painted stenciled words on the Callboxes symbolizing their achievements, talents and organizations. Participating /Advising Artists Darian Lassiter, Nathan Cousins, Mathew Andrews, Tsahai Pettiford, Amber Logan, Hakeem Olayinka, Aaron Rogers, Brandon, Bailey, Charles Bergen, Elsabe Dixon and George Tkabladze. (left) Callbox 2 - 13th and G sts NW - Flora Molton Flora Molton (1908-1990) was a blues and gospel musician whose primary stage was the street, first at Seventh and F, and later 11th and F. Born visually impaired in Louisa County, Virginia, Molton moved to Washington in 1937 and soon began relying on her musical, and preaching, talents. She became part of DC's burgeoning folk and blues community in the 1960s and in the next decades performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Library of Congress, and many other places. She also recorded three albums – but continued singing on the street until six months before her death.
38. CALLBX_191017_005.JPG: Flora Molton 1908 * 1990
39. CALLBX_191017_013.JPG: Mean Old World All Around Me Shine Lord Will Make A Way
40. CALLBX_191017_015.JPG: Lord Will Make a Way Peace in the Valley Swing Low Sweet Chariot
41. CALLBX_191017_019.JPG: Swing Low Sweet Chariot When The War is Over Vacation in Heaven
42. CALLBX_191017_022.JPG: Vacation in Heaven Traveling Shoes Mean Old World
43. CALLBX_191017_026.JPG: Flora Molton
44. CALLBX_191017_032.JPG: Callbox 1 - 13th and G sts NW - Alma Thomas Painter Alma Thomas (1891-1978) was Howard University's first fine arts graduate, in 1924, and that same year began teaching art at Shaw Junior High School. Upon retiring from Shaw in 1960, Thomas finally had time to focus on her own work. That is when she began developing her association with the Washington Color School, along with the abstract style for which she became known. Her paintings hang in many museums and galleries, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a short distance from here.
45. CALLBX_191017_033.JPG: Alma Thomas 1891 * 1978
46. CALLBX_191017_037.JPG: Abstract / Modern Howard U First Fine Arts Graduate
47. CALLBX_191017_040.JPG: Fine Arts Graduate Show Junior High Teacher 35 Years
48. CALLBX_191017_043.JPG: The Washington Color School Abstract / Modern
49. CALLBX_191017_046.JPG: Shaw Junior High Teacher 35 Years The Washington
50. CALLBX_191017_054.JPG: Alma Thomas
51. CALLBX_191017_064.JPG: Mary Church Terrell 1863 * 1954
52. CALLBX_191017_068.JPG: The chasm between the principles upon which the government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawns wide and deep. -- Mary Church Terrell
53. CALLBX_191017_075.JPG: Founding Member NACW Thompson's Restaurant DC Desegregation
54. CALLBX_191017_078.JPG: DC Desegregation DC Desegregation Charter Member NAACP
55. CALLBX_191017_080.JPG: DC Desegregation Charter Member NAACP Dunbar High School Woman Suffrage
56. CALLBX_191017_082.JPG: Dunbar High School Woman Suffrage Civil Rights Founding Member NACW
57. CALLBX_191017_088.JPG: Founding member NAACP and NACW
58. CALLBX_191017_095.JPG: (right) Callbox 5 - 14th and G sts NW - Mary Church Terrell Lifelong civil rights and women's rights activist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) helped end racial discrimination in restaurants and other public accommodations in the District. In 1950 she and colleagues were refused service at the whites-only Thompson's Cafeteria, nearby at 725 14th Street. Invoking 19th century anti-discrimination laws, they persuaded the city to sue Thompson's. The case advanced to the Supreme Court, which in 1953 outlawed discrimination in DC's public accommodations, in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc.
59. CALLBX_191017_110.JPG: This was supposed to be a box for Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's widow, but the fire department already had a claim to it.
60. CALLBX_191017_116.JPG: D.C.F.D. In memory of Firefighter John T. (Big John) Williams Killed in the line of duty the 19th day of December 1984 Box 144
61. CALLBX_191017_135.JPG: Callbox 8 - 14th and K sts NW - Josephine Butler Josephine Butler (1920-1997) was a tireless and dedicated community activist. As a young woman she organized the first union of black female laundry workers in DC and the country. In the 1950s she shepherded the Adams and Morgan elementary schools through desegregation, thereby uniting the neighborhood since then known as Adams Morgan. She worked for better health care, air quality, and parks, and in 1971 co-founded the DC Statehood Party, once headquartered nearby, at 11th and K streets, NW.
62. CALLBX_191017_140.JPG: Josephine Butler 1926 * 1997
63. CALLBX_191017_148.JPG: We Want to Vote
64. CALLBX_191017_181.JPG: Elizabeth Keckley 1818 * 1907
65. CALLBX_191017_188.JPG: Callbox 7 - Vermont Ave and K St NW - Elizabeth Keckley Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907), born into slavery in Virginia, was hired out as a seamstress. With money from clients, she bought her own and her son's freedom in 1855. She gained renown as a dressmaker after moving to Washington, where First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln became her frequent client and close friend. Keckley helped found organizations to assist formerly enslaved people, and later taught at Wilberforce University in Ohio. She rented rooms at various downtown addresses, including nearby 1509 L Street.
66. CALLBX_191017_198.JPG: Callbox 2 - 15th and L sts NW - Katharine Graham Katharine Meyer Graham (1917-2001) worked at the Washington Post as a young woman, after her father, Eugene Meyer, bought the paper in 1933. Meyer made Katharine Graham's husband, Philip Graham, the Post's publisher, but she took over the job after Philip's death in 1963. Under her tenure, the Post's status grew significantly, especially after it published the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and broke the Watergate scandal a year later. Graham became one of the country's most powerful figures in publishing.
67. CALLBX_191017_213.JPG: Katharine Graham 1917 * 2001
68. CALLBX_191017_217.JPG: Pentagon Papers Publisher Watergate
69. CALLBX_191017_220.JPG: Publisher Watergate Pulitzer Prize Philanthropist
70. CALLBX_191017_222.JPG: Pulitzer Prize Philanthropist Washington Post
71. CALLBX_191017_225.JPG: Washington Post Fortune 500 First [Female] CEO
72. CALLBX_191017_248.JPG: Julia Ward Howe 1819 * 1910
73. CALLBX_191017_252.JPG: Battle
74. CALLBX_191017_255.JPG: Hymn
75. CALLBX_191017_256.JPG: of the
76. CALLBX_191017_258.JPG: Republic
77. CALLBX_191017_260.JPG: Callbox 4 - 14th and F sts NW - Julia Ward Howe Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was a poet, author, composer, abolitionist, suffragist and more -- but she is most remembered for writing the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic. According to the story, she and her husband were asleep at the Willard Hotel one night in November 1861, when she awoke to voices in the street singing "John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave." From the window, she saw lines of Union troops marching by. Inspired, she composed new words to their tune, which they'd adapted from old hymns. The Battle Hymn of the Republic became the Union anthem.
78. CALLBX_191017_298.JPG: Callbox 3 - 14th and E Sts NW - Alice Paul Suffragist Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) advocated a more militant strategy for the woman suffrage movement, which was decades old when she came along, and short on victories. With others she founded the National Woman's Party and soon organized a huge demonstration for March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's first presidential inauguration. Thousands of women came to Washington to march along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, and the demonstrations continued until they'd converted Wilson to their cause. The 19th Amendment, granting women the vote, was ratified in 1920.
79. CALLBX_191017_299.JPG: Alice Paul 1885 * 1977
80. CALLBX_191017_314.JPG: 1920-2020 Centennial of the 19th Constitutional Amendment, which guarantees and protects a woman's right to vote
81. CALLBX_191017_336.JPG: Wilson opposes National Woman Suffrage How Long do you Advise Us to Wait? Wilson Against Women Votes for Women Wilson Against Women
82. CALLBX_191128_09.JPG: Artwork featured on this callbox was created by Diane Corea for the 1998 National Cherry Blossom Festival. The original was digitally created using Adobe Illustrator software.
83. CALLBX_191128_20.JPG: Artwork features on this callbox is a watercolor created by Thomas Chesterfield for the 1990 National Cherry Blossom Festival
84. CALLBX_191203_15.JPG: Hollywood on the Potomac Think of Georgetown as the real life equivalent of the MGM back lot. Hollywood has used Georgetown as a backdrop for drama, comedy, intrigue, romance, crime, disaster -- and horror. You are standing near the 75 steps that figured prominently in The Exorcist, perhaps the most famous movie made in Georgetown. The 1973 film told a chilling tale (written by Georgetown University Graduate William Peter Blatty) of a girl, possessed by a demon, who lives in a house adjacent to the steps. In a famous scene, a priest hurtles to his death down these steps. On the other side of the steps is the historic Car Barn built to store and transfer horse-drawn, and eventually, powered trolleys. All the President's Men about the investigative reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal was set in Georgetown. Three of the main characters, long-time residents Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward and Katherine Graham, lived in Georgetown at the time of the filming. Georgetown locales often featured are the C&O canal, Wisconsin Avenue and the Whitehurst Freeway. in No Way Out Kevin Costner used the Freeway as a means of Escape. T�a Leoni if forced of the Freeway in Deep Impact and all of Key Bridge is submerged by a tidal wave. In Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise. Wisconsin Avenue is a street in the future so no parked cars or pedestrians are visible. Campaign headquarters for Kevin Klein as presidential impersonator in the movie Dave is at 1422 Wisconsin Avenue. In St. Elmo's Fire a film about university students, bar scenes were filmed at The Third Edition at 1217 Wisconsin Avenue. Arnold Schwarzenegger shops at Georgetown Park in True Lies. Will Smith lives on the east side in Enemy of the State. Tom Hanks bicycles down P Street in this early movie The Man with One Red Shoe. In addition to movies, numerous documentaries and television episodes -- - from 24 to The West Wing -- have been shot in Georgetown, a community that is a "star" in its own right.
85. CALLBX_191206_02.JPG: Georgetown's First Market The citizens of Georgetown were already raising money for good causes two centuries ago. In 1796 the Mayor of Georgetown, Daniel Reintzel, was authorized to demolish a frame market house that stood on this site and erect a new brick market building. Funds for the new market were to be raised by voluntary contribution from the citizens of Georgetown. During the decades of profitable operation of the adjacent Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which made Georgetown a thriving commercial port, the Old Georgetown Market was enlarged. But by the end of the Civil War the market was worn out and was torn down and rebuilt again. One hundred years later, the U.S. Congress declared the market a historic landmark, and required that it be preserved and used only as a farmers market. So what began in revolutionary times as a butcher's market is still functioning as a market today -- perhaps the finest remaining symbol of Georgetown's long commercial history. Georgetown continues its tradition of volunteering funds for worthy projects. Just like for the Old Georgetown Market, funds for the restoration of this, and all other police and fire call boxes in Georgetown were raised by voluntary contributions from its proud citizens and business leaders.
86. CALLBX_191206_10.JPG: Restoration of Georgetown's Call Boxes Georgetown's Call Box restoration project is part of a city-wide effort to rescue the District's abandoned fire and police call boxes. Known as Art on Call, the project has identified more than 800 boxes for restoration. Neighborhood by neighborhood, they are being put to new use as permanent displays of local art, history and culture. The Georgetown project highlights the anecdotal history of Georgetown and its unique heritage as a thriving colonial port town that predated the District of Columbia. Fire alarm such as this one (originally painted red) were installed in the District after the Civil War. In most boxes, the alarm was activated by opening a door on the front of the box and pulling a lever. An automatic telegraph system transmitted the box number to a central office that directed the closes fire station to dispatch a fire truck to the vicinity of the call box. After almost 100 years, the system began to decline in the 1960s with the advent of two-way car radios and walkie-talkies. The alarms were finally turned off in the 1960s and replaced with the 911 emergency system. Art on Call is a program of Cultural Tourism DC with support from DC Commission on the Arts and humanities, DC Creates Public Art Program District Department of Transportation Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Citizens Association of Georgetown Bank of Georgetown
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