Period Rooms
This room features items that represent Russian Jewish immigrants.
What is Indiana?
What is a pier table? What is Alabama?
The library opened with this number of books.
What is 126
This first lady was the first President General of the DAR.
Who is Caroline Harrison?
This is the phrase that embodies PG Storage's message for her term.
What is Illuminating our Legacy?
This room features a chair that came from the General Assembly in the early 19th century.
What is Michigan
The Declaration of Independence was first read at this establishment in this state.
What is Tondee's Tavern and Georgia?
The daughters held their first continental congress in this year.
What is 1905?
This woman was denied performing at Constitution Hall in 1939.
Who was Marian Anderson?
DAR was founded to promote these three things.
What are preservation, education and patriotism.
The Virginia room features a map created in 1751 by these two men.
Who are Peter Jefferson and Joshua Frye.
Who is to George Washington's right in the Pennsylvania Foyer?
The DAR Library was originally founded in this year.
What is 1896? Bonus points if you can say where the library was.
Constitution Hall was built in this year.
What is 1928?
This new initiative by the Storage Administration focuses on finding blood lines from underrepresented and diverse revolutionary.
What is E Pluribus Unum?
This instrument was invented by Benjamin Franklin.
What is the Harmonican or Armonican? Bonus: What is the name of the French doctor and the term that came from his name?
This ship sank in this battle, in this river 1777.
What is the Augusta in the Delaware River in the Battle of Red Bend?
This is where you would direct questions about genealogy.
On October 11, 1890, the first organizational meeting of the new National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was held in this woman's home.
Who is Mary Smith Lockwood?
President General Storage's project is known as this.
This is the newest innovation in the 1840's in the Illinois room.
What is a coal stove?
This room has a copy press that was used in the 18th century to create copies of documents using slow drying ink.
What is Delaware?
This room was the second location for the library as its collection expanded.
What is NOC Assembly Room?
These women were the original four founders of DAR.
Who are Mary Smith Lockwood, Mary Desha, Eugenia Washington, and Ellen Hardin Walworth?