. >> i am sarah elliott, the curator for the house of representatives.i take care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork objects that document the house's rich heritage.

. >> i am sarah elliott, the curator for the house of representatives. i take care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork objects that document the house's rich heritage. >> i am the historian of the house. my job is to collect biographical information on members to gather data and historic lists and to conduct histories. we answer questions in our office that come on the hill and off the hill. we try to tell the story of the house, which is this a very big, old institution, in a way in which people can connect with it at a human level. we do that through telling biographical stories or through clips from oral histories. >> this is a campaign poster for shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman in congress. it says on bought -- says, unbought. >> it was actually for a presidential campaign she waged in 1972. she went to the democratic convention and rounded up 10% of the vote. she is the first african-american woman to run for president, and she did it on a shoestring budget. she had a reputation, a national reputation well before 1972. she is elect