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Photographs of Representatives Who Voted "Aye" on the Resolution Submitting to the Legislatures of the Several States a Proposition to Amend the Constitution of the United States as to Prohibit Slavery – Historic Photo Reproduction

Photographs of Representatives Who Voted "Aye" on the Resolution Submitting to the Legislatures of the Several States a Proposition to Amend the Constitution of the United States as to Prohibit Slavery, 1865 — historic photograph
Photographs of Representatives Who Voted "Aye" on the Resolution Submitting to the Legislatures of the Several States a Proposition to Amend the Constitution of the United States as to Prohibit Slavery, 1865. Historic photograph 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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A window into the past: Photographs of Representatives Who Voted "Aye" on the Resolution Submitting to the Legislatures of the Several States a Proposition to Amend the Constitution of the United States as to Prohibit Slavery, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Photographs of Representatives Who Voted "Aye" on the Resolution Submitting to the Legislatures of the Several States a Proposition to Amend the Constitution of the United States as to Prohibit Slavery

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A larger portrait of Speaker Schuyler Colfax anchors this albumen print, which gathers photographs of the representatives who voted for the resolution sending the Thirteenth Amendment to the states. Colfax presided when the House passed the measure on January 31, 1865, by a vote of 119 to 56, after an earlier attempt had failed the previous summer. The sheet's smaller portraits record the legislators who backed abolition in that vote, and the Powell & Co. studio produced the set in 1865, the same year the amendment was ratified.

Created / published1865
Mediumphotographic print, albumen
NotesLarger portrait: Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax. Powell & Co
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,087 × 3,900 px · prints to 10 × 13 in at 300 dpi
Reference1865 19338u

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