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Date: 1894

Museum: National Women’s History Museum (Alexandria, United States)

Technique: Collotype

Interior view of Supreme Court Room in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Notes: Wittemann Collection. No. 3 Albertype photogravure by the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.In 1800 the Federal Government moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to the permanent Capital, Washington, D.C. As a Supreme Court Building had not been constructed, the Court met in the Capitol Building. From 1819 to 1860 the Court met in a chamber now restored as the

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