Image description: This marble statue of Clio, the Muse of History, is displayed in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. It was created by Carlo Franzoni in 1819.
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Image description: This poster for the United States Travel Bureau promotes tourism. It was released in June 1938 as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project.
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Image description: Science can be art. A National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) calibration system used infrared laser light to precisely measure the thickness of 300 millimeter silicon wafer.
Photo by Q. Wang, U. Griesmann/NIST
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Photo of Maya Lin, 1988 by Michael Katakis from the National Portrait Gallery.
March is Women’s History Month. Today we recognize Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
From the Library of Congress:
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, originally designed as a student project by Maya Lin at Yale University’s School of Architecture in 1981, has become a profound symbol that has served to unify and reconcile a nation sorely divided by a foreign entanglement. Lin envisioned a black granite wall, in the shape of a V, on which the names of the American military dead and missing would be inscribed. The architect hoped that “these names, seemingly infinite in number, [would] convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.”
 Federal Art Project.
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 calibration system used infrared laser light to precisely measure the thickness of 300 millimeter silicon wafer.
Photo by Q. Wang, U. Griesmann/NIST
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