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As Congress got under way in 1903, Harper’s Weekly provided its readers with a handy, if entirely fictitious, photograph of notable women and men in Washington promenading next to the Capitol. The image was a composite constructed “from actual snap shots.” It accompanied an article on the soon-to-be-legendary new Speaker, Joe Cannon.
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “The Special Session of Congress - Scene on the Steps of the Capitol Building,” https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/2009/2009-128-001/ (January 17, 2021)
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