Photo courtesy of D.C. Courts.

D.C. Superior Court—not usually a stop for tourists looking for the kinds of historic documents found in the Smithsonian museums. Now, though, the court’s marriage bureau is displaying a collection of seven notable marriage applications, according to a D.C. Courts Facebook post.

The most significant is that of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, an interracial couple from Virginia who married in D.C. because anti-miscegenation laws made their union illegal in their home state. They were arrested and charged with violating the Racial Integrity Act when they returned to Virginia.

They challenged their conviction, which made it to the Supreme Court in 1967. In Loving v Virginia, the court unanimously ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriages were unconstitutional, striking down bans throughout the country. Justice Anthony Kennedy cited the ruling in the 2015 decision to make same-sex marriage legal throughout the country. The forthcoming movie Loving dramatizes their story.

History buffs might also enjoy seeing the marriage license of U.S. President Grover Cleveland, who entered his first term as a bachelor and became the first president to wed in the White House. The display also includes licenses from President Woodrow Wilson, former D.C. mayors Walter Washington and Marion Barry, and presidents’ daughters Patricia Nixon and Alice Roosevelt.

You can see the display at the Moultrie Courthouse’s Marriage Bureau, located at 500 Indiana Avenue, NW, Room JM-690 (This post originally said JM-590, which is not the correct room).