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2023.055.3.0336Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of an interior view of the Capitol building in a room with a multitude of statues. Above the image "10" is printed, below the image "32227 Old Hall of Representatives, now Statuary Hall, Capitol Building, Washington, D. C." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
32227
STATUARY HALL, FORMERLY THE HALL OF REPRESENTATIVES, CAPITOL BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Passing through the broad corridon connecting the S. wing with the central portion of the Capitol, we at onc enter the chamber which until 1857 was occupied by the House of Representatives. This room with its graceful, half-domed ceiling 60 ft. in height supported by 14 monolithic Corinthian columns of variegated Potomac marble, is rich in historic associations. here occurred many of the momentous pseeches and debates of the epoch preceding the Civil War, and these walls have echoed to the eloquence of Webster and Calhoun and the younger Adams; of Clay and Randolph and Lincoln and many other statesmen of the earlier decades of the republic. here Presiden madison took the oath of office and when Lafayette revisited the United States in 1824, it was here that he was officially welcomed by Henry Clay, then Speaker of the House.
In 1864, after it had ceased to be used for legislative purposes, the room was designated as Statuary Hall by act of Congress, and each State in the Union was invited to place the rein the statues of not more than two of its citizens, considered by the State itself as most illustrious. Up to the present ime forty state have responded with either one or two stateus and the collection has grown to be of great interest. From left ot right the figures we see are as follows. 1. Miss Frances E. Willard, Ill. 2. Thomas H. Benton, Mo. 3. Francis P. Blair, Mo. 4. (bronze) Samuel J. Kirkwood, Ia. 5. (bronze) James Harian, Ia. 6 (in foreground) Alexander H. Stephens, Ga. 7 Crawford W. Long, Ga. 8. (bronze) Zebulon B. Vance, N. C. 9. Roger Sherman, Conn. 10 Jonathan Trumbull, Conn. 11. (in foreground) John P. G. Muhlenberg, Pa. 12 . Ethan Allen, Vt. 13. George L. Shoup, Idaho. 14. John C. calhoun, S. C. 15. Zachariah Chandler, Mich.
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