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Washington, D.C. - Incidents of Life at the National Capitol during a session of Congress: 1. Writing cards for country visitors; 2. Refreshment room for senators; 3. A family lunch at the Capitol; 4. Female lobbyists; 5. Stock speculations in the telegraph station in the corridors of the house – Vintage Wall Art

Washington, D.C. - Incidents of Life at the National Capitol during a session of Congress: 1. Writing cards for country visitors; 2. Refreshment room for senators; 3. A family lunch at the Capitol; 4. Female lobbyists; 5. Stock speculations in the telegraph station in the corridors of the house, 1881 — antique engraving
Washington, D.C. - Incidents of Life at the National Capitol during a session of Congress: 1. Writing cards for country visitors; 2. Refreshment room for senators; 3. A family lunch at the Capitol; 4. Female lobbyists; 5. Stock speculations in the telegraph station in the corridors of the house, 1881. Antique engraving from the Presidents 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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Step back in time with Washington, D.C. - Incidents of Life at the National Capitol during a session of Congress: 1. Writing cards for country visitors; 2. Refreshment room for senators; 3. A family lunch at the Capitol; 4. Female lobbyists; 5. Stock speculations in the telegraph station in the corridors of the house, an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Washington, D.C. - Incidents of Life at the National Capitol during a session of Congress: 1. Writing cards for country visitors; 2. Refreshment room for senators; 3. A family lunch at the Capitol; 4. Female lobbyists; 5. Stock speculations in the telegraph station in the corridors of the house

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Rather than a single scene, this is a set of five small wood engravings of the Capitol during a congressional session: visitors having cards written for them, senators taking refreshment, a family lunching in the building, women lobbyists, and speculators trading stocks at a telegraph station in a House corridor. It appeared in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* in April 1881, a popular weekly that relied on wood engraving before halftone photographs became standard in print. Together the vignettes show how lobbying, gossip and business mingled with lawmaking in the building's corridors.

Created / published1881
Medium5 prints : wood engraving.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 52, no. 1332 (1881 Apr. 9), p. 97. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Women--in politics; Lobbying; Stock market; Telegraph; Congress, U.S.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,094 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144459

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