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E PLURIBUS UNUM —
OUT OF MANY, ONE

HISTORY OF CONGRESS
AND THE CAPITOL

A Splendid Capitol

Library of Congress, by Alexander Jackson Davis and Stephen H. Gilmer, ca. 1832.

Library of Congress, by Alexander Jackson Davis and Stephen H. Gilmer, ca. 1832.

 

Library of Congress, by Alexander Jackson Davis and Stephen H. Gilmer, ca. 1832

The congressional library was comfortably furnished to accommodate both elected officials and the general public.

I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

 
History of Congress and the Capitol