Supreme Court of the United States – Historic 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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Supreme Court of the United States
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The chamber shown here is where the justices heard cases in the Capitol, a room the Court shared with the Senate's old meeting space and occupied from 1860 until it moved into its own building in 1935. The print is a photoprint credited to C.M. Bell, a Washington photographer who recorded government buildings and officials in the late nineteenth century. Its date of about 1888 comes from an old caption card and has not been independently verified, but it places the image in an era when the Court was still working in cramped Capitol quarters. Look at the arrangement of the bench, counsel tables and gallery to see how the justices' room was set up before the Court had a home of its own.
| Created / published | c1888. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by C.M. Bell. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,409 × 1,120 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108028 |
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