Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and
To pass and grant signed the authorization in march of 1872 for the First National park, which was yellowstone. Here is a rendition of morans water color of the canyon of the yellowstone. Here is one of mammoth hot springs. Then we have jacksons photograph of the lower fall. This is the 1871 print of his, one of his pictures on glass plates, keep in mind that they had a glass plate. They could not enlarge it. The plate was as large as the picture. They had to coat it and then expose it and then fix it and keep track of it. They were on mules and horses. The very essence its a miracle we have any of them. You have to understand a lot of , the park was driven by how could i make money. We understand and we know for a fact that part of it was that the railroads were making their move west and in order to fund and to make a business out of it, they had to have places they wanted to go. And so the Northern Pacific , railroad, which was going to be on through montana, which would have been t
There we go, there is the netherlands. And the pointer is now pointing to the city of amsterdam, the capital of the netherlands. This is where louises family went into hiding until the very end of the war. This is my favorite one. This is a picture of louise and she was one years old. She was cute then, she is still to now. Now. Ill cute this is louise with her favorite dog, her brother and one of the chairs she had as a gift for her second birthday. That chair is now in the possession of the United States Holocaust Memorial museum. It is occasionally uneasy out exhibits on exhibit a to louise. Her parents celebrated her birthday during their time in hiding thanks to some of their friends and reserve officers from the outside. So this is louises apartment building, you can see the arrow pointing to the attica apartment where her family hid during the war years. Following louises birthday, that picture we just saw, that Little Family would spend an additional year in hiding almost until
Monoxy battlefield, monassas battlefield, another civil war engagement, harpers ferry. Famous locations around the region. Piscataway park down here in ft. Washington. Piscataway park is a beautiful park right on the potomac river. Early historic settlements as early as 1630, we have prehistoric indian sites all along this location. If you look at washington itself, youll see an incredible amount of d. C. Is green, that means its more e administered National Parks service. Rock creek park is one of the largest urban parks in the united states. Its the third Oldest National park service unit, i believe, so you have lots of wonderful little green spaces that are parks here in washington and the washington metropolitan area. What i think is most amusing is within our region you could put our region inside yellowstone National Park about 500 times, but at the same time one of the things that makes it significant and important region is right there. We are in the nations capital. This is a