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Raising the Flag, May 1861 (from the original picture by Winner) – Historic Reproduction

Raising the Flag, May 1861 (from the original picture by Winner), 1864 — historic image
Raising the Flag, May 1861 (from the original picture by Winner), 1864. Historic image from the U.S. Capitol collection.

(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: Raising the Flag, May 1861 (from the original picture by Winner), preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

Raising the Flag, May 1861 (from the original picture by Winner)

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The title places this scene in May 1861, just weeks after Virginia seceded and left the national capital surrounded by slaveholding states on the Potomac's southern bank. The print reproduces an original picture by an artist named Winner and carries an 1864 date, which marks it as a wartime image made when Northern audiences wanted visual reminders of the Union's endurance. The Capitol was still under construction then, with its iron dome unfinished, so a flag raised there stood as a deliberate symbol of federal authority in a city that felt exposed and uncertain.

Created / published1864
Original scan3,600 × 2,965 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi
Reference1861 02546u Raising the flag May 1861

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