[Maintenance Section of U.S. Capitol: cleaning up House Minority Room] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Maintenance Section of U.S. Capitol: cleaning up House Minority Room] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7d/7da482a973c6-L.webp)
(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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This historic photograph of [Maintenance Section of U.S. Capitol: cleaning up House Minority Room] brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Maintenance Section of U.S. Capitol: cleaning up House Minority Room]
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Work crews at the U.S. Capitol are shown tidying the House Minority Room, a working space in the House wing used by the party out of power. The caption card lists furniture, a shelf, and blacksmiths among its tags, but it gives no date, and those tags are unverified, so the scene is best read as routine upkeep rather than a documented event. Photographs of maintenance staff are valuable because they record the everyday labor that kept the legislative chambers and their surrounding rooms in working order.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Furniture; Occupations--Blacksmiths; Washington, D.C.--Capitol; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,248 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-127817 |
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