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Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper was a leading national newspaper when this set of images was published in the 1880s. The article illustrated scenes of daily business in the capital, from Speaker Carlisle calling the House to order and swearing in “potent, grave and reverend legislators” to the dangers faced by a Congressman in an unfamiliar city. At lower left a Representative dodges cyclists amusing themselves on the newly paved asphalt streets. At right, a new Member of Congress finds himself so lost in the vast Capitol that he asks directions from a “small boy, who seems as if he had been born and raised in the building.”
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “Scenes at the Capitol and on Pennsylvania Ave.,” https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/2010/2010-034-000/ (April 12, 2021)
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