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[colorized photograph of US Capitol building]

(c) National Geographic Society

National Color Photograph by Charles Martin

A FLOWER-BORDERED TERRACE OF THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.

For more than a century this building has seen the seasons come and go and watched the growth of the Federal City from a mud-spattered village to one of the show places of the world. To the west the lofty obelisk of the Washington Monument and the towers of the Smithsonian Institution rise above the Mall's verdant sea.