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Senators assemble outside the Capitol for a ceremony in September 1918. The Senate would soon become embroiled in a bitter debate over ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.

Next!, by Udo Keppler, Puck, September 7, 1904

The Summerhouse

Statue of Abraham Lincoln, by Vinnie Ream, 1870

Library of Congress, Harper’s Weekly, February 27, 1897

After 1908, each member of Congress was entitled to at least one room as a personal office.

While the Civil War raged, a great cast-iron dome was added to the Capitol, symbol of an enduring nation.

Union soldiers in front of the unfinished new Senate wing of the Capitol, 1861

East Grand Stair, Senate wing

Liberty, by Constantino Brumidi, ca. 1860