Video Tour of the U.S. Capitol

Join one of our wonderful guides for this video tour of the U.S. Capitol.
Narration by Emily Boisvert, Visitor Guide, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
Still Image Credits:
A view of the Capitol of Washington before it was burnt down by the British, painting by William R. Birch, image retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...
United States Capitol - 1846, Plumbe, John, photograph retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...
Original Pay Voucher for Philip Reid, image retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, www.aoc.gov/philip-reid-and-s...
Clark Mills's Foundry, photograph retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...
1863 Drawing of Scaffold for Statue of Freedom, Walter, Thomas, U., Original Architect of the Capitol, image retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...
Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. , King & Baird, E., Nast, T., Bott, S. & Umpehent, J. W. (ca. 1865), Published by S. Bott, no. 43 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Penna, photograph retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2004665360/
United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Rotunda, section, Bulfinch, Charles, Architect, Washington D.C, Between 1819 and 1828, image retrieved from the Library of Congress, loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.23681
Rotunda During Civil War, 1862, Cox, Allyn, oil on canvas, 1973-1974, photograph by the Architect of the Capitol, www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...
The House of Representatives, Morse, Samuel, oil on canvas, 1822 (probably reworked 1823), Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund), image retrieved from the National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov/collection/art-ob...
Additional photography and exterior videography by the Architect of the Capitol
Music: The People by Kyle Preston, licensed through Artist.io