Centennial Tea Party in Rotunda of U.S. Capitol, Washington, Wednesday evening, Dec. 16, 1875 – Antique Print
(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 images capture their era like this antique engraving of Centennial Tea Party in Rotunda of U.S. Capitol, Washington, Wednesday evening, Dec. 16, 1875. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Centennial Tea Party in Rotunda of U.S. Capitol, Washington, Wednesday evening, Dec. 16, 1875
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This wood engraving puts a tea party inside the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, a deliberate echo of the Boston Tea Party of 1773. It ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper*, a weekly that paired news stories with large engravings and reached a wide readership in the 1870s. The catalog record places the event in December 1875 and the print in 1875, but those details come from an older caption card and have not been independently verified. Taken as a picture of its moment, it shows how the approaching hundredth anniversary of independence was being marked with patriotic, theatrical gatherings.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1875 Jan. 2, p. 281. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US Hist.--Boston Tea P; DC, Wahs.--US C---Int.--Rotunda; Tea; Centennial celebrations; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,156 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-134730 |
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