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Washington cat show opens at Wardman Park Hotel

Edna B. Doughty and Louise Grogan with Persian cats. (Cat names unknown.)

The Wardman Park Hotel was a hotel in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Photo taken ca. 1920

Source: Library of Congress

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Herbert E. French, photographer. Washington cat show opens at Wardman Park Hotel - Edna B. Doughty and Louisa Grogen with some of the beautiful cats entered in the show. 1927 Feb 1.

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

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The First Trial by Jury, by C.W. Cope 1850

The defendant in this imagined scene is in custody, at center; the victim is lying dead in the foreground, being wept over; the judge is seated at upper left, holding a staff; and the jury is deliberating on the right.

They wasted no time in those days.

This post is about civic rituals, and civic love, in the aftermath of a jury’s 34 guilty verdicts against Donald Trump in New York this week.

I will have two main points. 

The first is that jury service deserves more attention, support, admiration, and willing participation than it usually receives.

It deserves these things because it is the most important cross-class, cross-partisan, public-minded, genuinely deliberative experience that most of today’s Americans are ever likely to undergo. 

It follows that anyone attacking juries or jurors is doing particularly noxious civic harm.

(Even though juries make mistakes.) I’m talking about you, GOP.

The other is that the greatest US patriots are those who adhere to the American ideal, and strive for American possibility, even when American realities slap them in the face.

“I, too, sing America,” wrote Langston Hughes when he was 24 years old and working as a hotel waiter in segregated Washington DC. 

Nearly 30 years later, when he was called to testify before Sen. Joe McCarthy’s red-baiting investigative committee and grilled on his beliefs by the odious Roy Cohn—then McCarthy’s hatchet-man, later an ally of Donald Trump—this same Langston Hughes said:

“I love the country I have grown up with. I am concerned with helping to build America, when sometimes I cannot even get into a school, or a lecture, or a concert, or go to a library and get a book out.”

These are the people who built our country and actually made it great.¹ In our times Donald Trump has somehow managed to make an entire political party anti-hope, anti-idealistic, anti-institutional, anti-American.

Above, the 24-year-old Langston Hughes, working as a waiter at the Wardman-Park hotel in segregated 1920s Washington DC.

He attracted attention when the then-celebrated potent Vachel Lindsay was staying at the hotel and “discovered” him.

Below, Hughes in his early 50s, called to answer questions in Washington from Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn. (Getty Images.)

The rituals of our collective life.

First, I’ll talk about three major government-established rituals of civic life.

  —At one extreme is military service. It is extreme both in the sacrifices it can demand, and in its comparative rarity now. After World War II, the combination of a large standing military, and small post-Depression birth cohorts, meant that most American families had first-hand connections to military service—and in many cases, to combat experience as well. 

Now only a relative handful do. As I wrote in “Chickenhawk Nation” nine years ago, a total of 2.5 million American served in the US military in Iraq, Afghanistan, or their surroundings through the first decade-plus of the “long wars” there. That was about 3/4th of one percent of the US population. The active-duty military now numbers about 1.3 million Americans, or well under half of one percent. Through the millennia, military service has bonded those who have been through it, “we band of brothers”-style. It still creates that bond and identity, but among a relative handful.

—At the other extreme is voting. Nearly 160 million Americans, some two-thirds of the eligible population, cast a vote for president in 2020. That was the highest turnout rate in more than a century. Over the past decade turnout rates have been going up. On election day most of us feel a ritual bond in joining a public event whose outcome we can’t be sure of until it happens—and may lament once it has occurred.

This year, once again, get out the vote!

—In between is the underappreciated civic ritual of jury service.² 

When the topic is discussed, it’s usually as a chore to be avoided—“Oh no, what excuse can I give this time?”—or as another chessboard on which legal strategists and schemers can operate.

Jury-curating is the running theme of the CBS series Bull and of countless courtroom novels.

But jury service is apparently a more widespread experience than I had thought.

Numbers are tricky, given all the different levels of American courts.

But a 2012 survey found that 27% of adult Americans had actually served on trial juries at least once in their lives.

A study last year concluded that 11 million Americans report each year for jury service, and that about 1.5 million ended up sitting as jury members at trials.

I wish even more people would have this experience.

It makes being a citizen vivid and tangible in a way that’s hard to match in peacetime life.³

What you learn on a jury.

I have been on three trial juries that deliberated their way to a verdict.

All have been in Washington DC.

(In some jurisdictions, you’re excluded for being a lawyer, or a journalist, or a government employee or law-enforcement staffer. In DC, they need everyone to serve, and they wave you right in.)

Two were “normal” drug-dealing cases.

One was a shooting.

Two were resolved after a few hours of deliberation.

One took several days.

All of the juries were “diverse” in ways more fundamental than the formulaic use of the term.

As I remember it, all of them were 7-5 female over male.

All were “majority-minority,” with Black and Hispanic jurors making up seven or eight members of the group.

All had members in their 20s, and members in their 70s. Professional people (lawyers, doctors, NIH researchers, State Department officials); hourly workers (truck drivers, cab drivers, food-truck operators); and the unemployed.

People with multiple advanced degrees, and people who had not finished high school.

One woman who needed an oxygen tank to get through the day’s discussions.

The range of our country.

And in all these cases, all 12 of us actually discussed and deliberated over the evidence.

People as they come across in “guy in a diner” stories do not sound smart.

People in a jury room—in my experience—sound as if they are paying attention.

And when you know that you finally must come to a unanimous decision, you listen, and think, and do so.

In one of the cases, I changed my mind through the course of deliberation.

In other cases, I think the process changed other people’s minds.

In all of the cases, the 12 of us walked out at the end and gave our verdict to the judge. 

I have never seen any of these people again, but we were a unit at the time.

What am I getting at here?

Anybody who goes on TV or issues statements saying that this latest case was a “rigged trial” or a “New York jury” can go straight to Hell.

And anyone who tries to doxx or torment these people, including the alternates, deserves the express lane downward.

I hope and assume that protections are lined up for the jurors and the judge.

(And respect, by the way, to the neighbors and work colleagues of these jurors who must have figured out who they were, but who have kept that info to themselves.)

These people have done their civic duty. They would not have taken it lightly. I hope none of them is made to regret this service.

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Picture This: Profiling Portraits: Feline Photography https://ift.tt/2DUAmHr by Kristi Finefield

Taking a portrait alongside your favorite feline is no easy task. Cats are notoriously (but delightfully) finicky about following directions, so getting one to sit still for a portrait can be a tall order. Despite that, our collections contain many examples of people posing with their cats – or at least attempting to do so!

Aviator John Moisant took his cat with him everywhere – including when he became the first pilot to fly with a passenger over the English Channel in 1910. Technically, he had two passengers – his mechanic and his feline friend, Mademoiselle Fifi, pictured below!

John B. Moisant. Photo, copyrighted 1911. https://ift.tt/38ghtwn

Photographer Arnold Genthe named all of his cats Buzzer, a reference to their deep purr, which he enjoyed. He had at least four Buzzers in his life! While I haven’t yet come across a photo of Genthe himself with Buzzer, the various incarnations posed with many of the famous subjects of Genthe, such as actress Daisy King, below. (This is likely a very relaxed Buzzer IV.)

King, Daisy, Miss, with Buzzer the cat, portrait photograph. Photo by Arnold Genthe, 1914 June. https://ift.tt/2DThrN8

Famous felines aside, we have many photos of a family cat with his or her owner, such as the ones clutched by the young girls pictured below:

Baby Beede with kitten. Western Slope Farms, Colorado. Photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1939 Oct. https://ift.tt/2FXK4rK

Hume, C. Photo by C.M. Bell, between December 1903 and March 1905. https://ift.tt/2rYnU6S

The next two photos include show cats, so they are quite beautiful though not necessarily more cooperative!

Washington cat show opens at Wardman Park Hotel. [Edna B. Doughty and Louise Grogan with Persian cats.] Photo by National Photo Company, between 1920 and 1932. https://ift.tt/2DOO4vt

Mrs. M.K. Metcalf, Cat Show, 2/1/27. Photo by National Photo Company, 1927 February 1. https://ift.tt/2PdvBOc

And perhaps saving my favorites for last, enjoy a series of photographs of a Mrs. Emmons attempting to pose with her white cat, with varying levels of success. The photographs come from the collection of photographer C.M. Bell’s Washington, D.C., studio, so we have the successes as well as the “outtakes” of some portrait sessions. I included a fourth photo of just the cat, as perhaps Mrs. Emmons had reached her limit at that point!

Emmons, Mrs. S.F. Photo by C.M. Bell, between February 1894 and February 1901. https://ift.tt/2Pmiryy

Emmons cat. Photo by C. M. Bell, between February 1894 and February 1901. https://ift.tt/33RWRHD

Emmons cat [woman and cat] Photo by C.M. Bell, between February 1894 and February 1901. https://ift.tt/33RWSLH

Emmons [cat]. Photo by C. M. Bell, between February 1894 and February 1901. ttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/bellcm.06682

Cat story, 1/11/21. Photo by National Photo Company, 1921 January 11. https://ift.tt/34YqA2K

Learn More:

Peruse an album of Purrfect Cat photos, prints and drawings recently added to the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division’s Flickr photostream.

Cats were also the focus of a recent Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse set of images: Cats.

Explore all of the Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse sets.

Revisit Picture This blog posts related to the above:

Coolidge’s Cat: Out of the Bag: What happens when a presidential pet cat goes missing in Washington, D.C.?

C. M. Bell Studio Collection: Newly Digitized Portraits: A sample of the portrait photos of Washington-based photographer C. M. Bell.

View the rest of the entries in the occasional Profiling Portraits blog series.

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Miss Washington in bathing suit at Wardman Park pool 1922 Source: Library of Congress

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Wardman Pks. swimming pool, 7/15/22 

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)

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Washington cat show opens at Wardman Park Hotel – Edna B. Doughty and Louisa Grogen with some of the beautiful cats entered in the show. 1927.

Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-79823). Public domain.

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See You at the 2018 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo

If you’re a REALTOR®, the month of May brings one of the most exciting meetings of the year: the REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo in Washington, D.C. For brokers, this major gathering offers many meetings and special events from May 14-19, including opportunities to tour the REALTORS® Trade Expo on May 16 and 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

While attending the Trade Expo, you’ll learn about the latest real estate products and services from 100 industry-leading companies, including lead-generation systems, internet-prospecting solutions, MLS providers, and much more. I also invite you to visit the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Booth No. 1707, where you can take advantage of numerous member resources and activities.

Special Savings

Take advantage of savings and unique offers just for REALTORS® from NAR’s REALTOR Benefits® Program.

Master your domain with .realtor™. Members get their first custom domain and email address free for the first year.

Take 10 percent off publications and receive a free Swanepoel Trends Report when you spend $30 or more at the REALTOR® Store.

Sign up for the Member Value Plus (MVP) program eNewsletter to earn a free social media webinar, plus, spin the digital prize wheel to earn more amazing rewards.

Shop one-of-a-kind REALTOR®-branded merchandise in the REALTOR Team Store®, a REALTOR Benefits® Program partner.

Unique Insights

See how Realtors Property Resource® (RPR®) provides REALTORS® with comprehensive data, powerful analytics, and client-friendly reporting.

Explore the emerging technologies that impact real estate, such as the Internet of Things, blockchain, and more, with the Center for REALTOR® Technology (CRT) Labs.

Learn about valuable resources and expertise from Member Support, such as eBooks, library research, business letter templates, and more.

Find the information, resources and connections you need to thrive in the growing field of global real estate with NAR Global & Business Alliances.

Help your business thrive with member services and resources developed specifically for commercial real estate professionals.

Additional Resources

Ask about programs and resources available to develop volunteer leadership.

Access tools to support efficient and resilient homes and communities with the REALTOR® Sustainability Program.

Take a tour of your personal dashboard on the NAR Member Center, including your individual member card and a consolidated calendar of events from your national, state and local associations.

We’ll also be hosting several special events at the NAR Booth:

Enjoy a cup of coffee with the NAR Leadership Team on Wednesday, May 16 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Enter to win a LenovoTM Yoga 920 14-inch tablet, valued at $1,300. LenovoTM is a proud partner in NAR’s REALTOR Benefits® Program, your official member benefits resource. Earn up to eight additional prize entries by visiting all programs and resources represented in NAR Booth No. 1707.

Join NAR’s Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. Pledge your commitment to Article 10 of the NAR Code of Ethics, which states that REALTORS® should not discriminate against any person, by signing the lobby display at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, then visit NAR Booth No. 1707 to pick up your commemorative fair housing pin (while supplies last).

Several other affiliated groups will also join us in the REALTOR® Pavilion, including:

Center for REALTOR® Development, Booth No. 1813 – Grow your business with NAR’s official designations, certifications and continuing education courses.

REALTOR® University, Booth No. 1819 – Learn how to take your career to the highest level with the accredited Master of Real Estate Degree program, and help us celebrate the graduating class of 2018!

2018 REach® Class, Booth No. 1731 – Meet the 2018 REach® technology accelerator companies. View their demos and find out more about their offerings.

Real Estate Today Radio, Booth No. 1805 – Learn how to provide your clients with critical, timely and trustworthy information on today’s market with NAR’s official radio program.

Don’t Miss Out!

Visit www.nar.realtor/midyear to register and learn more about all the events at the REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo. See you there!

Matt Lombardi is senior vice president, Marketing, Communications & Events, National Association of REALTORS®.

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Special Collections Librarian Becky Ruud put together an exhibit of Abolitionist materials from our archives. The display features pamphlets and works from John Whittier, William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, the New England Anti-Slavery Society, the American Anti-Slavery Society, Charles Sumner, Thomas H. Jones, and the Concord Anti-Slavery Society.

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Picture This: Profiling Portraits: Feline Photography

Profiling Portraits: Feline Photography By Kristi Finefield

Taking a portrait alongside your favorite feline is no easy task. Cats are notoriously (but delightfully) finicky about following directions, so getting one to sit still for a portrait can be a tall order. Despite that, our collections contain many examples of people posing with their cats – or at least attempting to do so!

Aviator John Moisant took his cat with him everywhere – including when he became the first pilot to fly with a passenger over the English Channel in 1910. Technically, he had two passengers – his mechanic and his feline friend, Mademoiselle Fifi, pictured below!

John B. Moisant. Photo, copyrighted 1911. https://ift.tt/38ghtwn

Photographer Arnold Genthe named all of his cats Buzzer, a reference to their deep purr, which he enjoyed. He had at least four Buzzers in his life! While I haven’t yet come across a photo of Genthe himself with Buzzer, the various incarnations posed with many of the famous subjects of Genthe, such as actress Daisy King, below. (This is likely a very relaxed Buzzer IV.)

King, Daisy, Miss, with Buzzer the cat, portrait photograph. Photo by Arnold Genthe, 1914 June. https://ift.tt/2DThrN8

Famous felines aside, we have many photos of a family cat with his or her owner, such as the ones clutched by the young girls pictured below:

Baby Beede with kitten. Western Slope Farms, Colorado. Photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1939 Oct. https://ift.tt/2FXK4rK

Hume, C. Photo by C.M. Bell, between December 1903 and March 1905. https://ift.tt/2rYnU6S

The next two photos include show cats, so they are quite beautiful though not necessarily more cooperative!

Washington cat show opens at Wardman Park Hotel. [Edna B. Doughty and Louise Grogan with Persian cats.] Photo by National Photo Company, between 1920 and 1932. https://ift.tt/2DOO4vt

Mrs. M.K. Metcalf, Cat Show, 2/1/27. Photo by National Photo Company, 1927 February 1. https://ift.tt/2PdvBOc

And perhaps saving my favorites for last, enjoy a series of photographs of a Mrs. Emmons attempting to pose with her white cat, with varying levels of success. The photographs come from the collection of photographer C.M. Bell’s Washington, D.C., studio, so we have the successes as well as the “outtakes” of some portrait sessions. I included a fourth photo of just the cat, as perhaps Mrs. Emmons had reached her limit at that point!

Emmons, Mrs. S.F. Photo by C.M. Bell, between February 1894 and February 1901. https://ift.tt/2Pmiryy

Emmons cat. Photo by C. M. Bell, between February 1894 and February 1901. https://ift.tt/33RWRHD

Emmons cat [woman and cat] Photo by C.M. Bell, between February 1894 and February 1901. https://ift.tt/33RWSLH

Emmons [cat]. Photo by C. M. Bell, between February 1894 and February 1901. ttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/bellcm.06682

Cat story, 1/11/21. Photo by National Photo Company, 1921 January 11. https://ift.tt/34YqA2K

Learn More:

Peruse an album of Purrfect Cat photos, prints and drawings recently added to the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division’s Flickr photostream.

Cats were also the focus of a recent Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse set of images: Cats.

Explore all of the Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse sets.

Revisit Picture This blog posts related to the above:

Coolidge’s Cat: Out of the Bag: What happens when a presidential pet cat goes missing in Washington, D.C.?

C. M. Bell Studio Collection: Newly Digitized Portraits: A sample of the portrait photos of Washington-based photographer C. M. Bell.

View the rest of the entries in the occasional Profiling Portraits blog series.

Published December 06, 2019 at 11:11AM Read more on https://loc.gov

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Poet cheerleaders from 1976. You stay classy, Whittier College. Wardman Library is celebrating Homecoming this week with images from our archives. More photos are up in our exhibit, showcased on the first floor of the library.

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The Whittier College Homecoming King Humberto Gray and Queen Sydney West pose for their coronation in 1983. Wardman Library is celebrating Homecoming this week with images from our archives. More photos are up in our exhibit, showcased on the first floor of the library.

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Check out the Whittier College football team from 1910! Wardman Library is celebrating Homecoming this week with images from our archives. More photos are up in our exhibit, showcased on the first floor of the library.