This was the first of a twopart program, you can view this and all other american artifacts programs at her website, cspan. Org history. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next we take you inside thes house wing of the u. S. Capital to learn about the history of women in congress. And second of a twoFarar Elliott program we continue the story beginning in the 1940s with republican congresswomen Clare Boothe Luce. Im Farar Elliott curateor for the house of representatives, which means i take care of the artwork and objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im Matthew Wasniewski and historian at the house. And my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists, and to con dpdu oral histories. We reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. And we try to tell the story of the house, which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can
This was the first of a twopart program. You can view this and all other american artifact programs on our website, cspan. Org history. Each week, American History tv is american artifact visits museums and historic places. Next we take you inside the house wing of the u. S. Capitol to learn about the history of women in congress. In the second of a twopart program, we continue the story into the 1940s with republican congresswoman clare booth luce. I am sarah elliott. I am the curator for the house of representatives. I take care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork, objects that document the houses rich heritage. I am the historian at the house. My job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. We answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. We try to tell the story of the house. Which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can connect with it at a
They discuss objects related to uniforms. Watch tonight beginning at 8 00 eastern and enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan 3. Visits museums and historic places. Up next we take you inside the house wing of the u. S. Capitol to learn about the history of women in congress. In a second of a twopart program, we continue the story beginning in the 1940s with republican congresswoman claire booth. Im the curator, and i take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im the higstorian of the house. And my job is to collect information on members to gather data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. We answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill and we try to tell the story of the house, which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can kind of connect with it at a human level. We do that through telling biographical stories or clips from
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Biographical information on members, together data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. We enter reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. We try to tell the story of the house. It is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can connect with it at a humanly level. We do that through telling biographical stories or with clips from oral histories that give people a humans sense of a very large institution. Today, we thought we would try to do that by telling you about the history of women in congress. That is a this is a nifty piece of campaign ephemera. It is for clare booth luce, her reelection campaign. It is quite handy. It tells you what to do. Use this column when voting for clare booth luce. It has a little arrow, and how to make sure that you are pulling the levers. And Clare Boothe Luce wouldve been the republican counterpart of helen douglas. Her career had started as a writer and editor. She was a managing e