As winter winds its way to a close, snow has continued to fall this week in Washington. Kelly sent me a link to today’s Pic of the Week suggesting I tweet it. I liked it so much I thought it deserved to be today’s post.
![Senate page boys stage their first snow battle on the Capitol plaza. between 1909 and 1932. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09408.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218035949im_/https://blogs.loc.gov/law/files/2015/02/senate-page-boys-stage-their-first-snow-battle-on-the-capitol-plaza.jpg)
Senate page boys stage their first snow battle on the Capitol plaza. between 1909 and 1932. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09408.
Not only is it a fun photo, but it has Congressional pages! As a former House page during the summer of 1994 (more than twenty years ago? That can’t be right!), I still have an affinity for the program that helped lead me to Washington, DC, where I continue to work for Congress at their Library.
The History, Art & Archives website of the House of Representatives has a great publication on the History of the House Page Program. Although the House program no longer exists, the Senate program is still going strong.