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Winter at the National Capital—A Night Session

A hand-colored print showing a snowy night scene outside the West Front of the Capitol. Horse-drawn carriages and people move to and from the Capitol, where windows and the dome are brightly lit beneath a dark, cloudy sky./tiles/collection/2/25500.xml
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A hand-colored print showing a snowy night scene outside the West Front of the Capitol. Horse-drawn carriages and people move to and from the Capitol, where windows and the dome are brightly lit beneath a dark, cloudy sky.
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Date

1885-03-07

Artist

Charles S. Graham

Publication

Harper's Weekly

Publisher

Harper & Brothers

Dimensions

22 3/16 × 15 13/16 in. (56.4 × 40.2 cm) Framed: 30 × 22 7/8 in. (76.2 × 58.1 cm)

Accession Number

2004.086.015

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

This 1885 image captured how busy Washington was in the winter months that year. On the snowy streets, carriages returned Representatives from dinner parties to evening votes at the Capitol. That session, Congress replaced Alaska’s military rule with a civil territorial government, passed the Second Chinese Exclusion Act, stiffened the penalties for violating immigration policy, established bureaus of labor and of animal industry, and modified tariff rates to encourage American shipbuilding.

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