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[Rooms in the U.S. Capitol: Mantel in the old room of the Vice President] – Historic Reproduction

[Rooms in the U.S. Capitol: Mantel in the old room of the Vice President] — historic print
[Rooms in the U.S. Capitol: Mantel in the old room of the Vice President]. Historic print from the U.S. Capitol collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few rooms in the Capitol combine a working office with such a close link to the legislative floor as the one set aside for the Vice President, and this print isolates its mantel, the carved fireplace piece that anchored the room. The Vice President presides over the Senate, so the room's location and furnishings reflected that official role. Glenn Brown's two-volume *History of the United States Capitol* recorded the building's interiors for later readers, and this view appears there as plate 76. The print carries no date, so its exact making is uncertain, but the restrained classical design fits the taste of the Capitol's early nineteenth-century interiors.

Medium1 print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsIllus. in: Glenn Brown, History of the United States Capitol, vol. 1, plate 76. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fireplaces; DC, Wash.--US Capitol int; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,126 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136489

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