Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
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Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
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Stereograph. Silver Gelatin Photoprint.
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Stereograph. Silver Gelatin Photoprint.
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Inscription
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House of Burgesses Chamber , Capitol - This was the meeting room of the House of Burgesses, the lower body of the general assembly, governing the vast Virginia colony. Among the outstanding members of the group during the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason and other famous Virginians. This chamber of the reconstructed capitol has been authentically furnished following old records which ordered: "That the room be furnished with a large armed chair for the speaker to sit in, and a cushion stuft [stuffed] with hair suitable to it, and a table eight foot long and five foot broad." The speaker's chair at the far end of the room was formerly in the capitol, and was taken to Richmond when the seat of government was removed to that city in 1780. It was lent to colonial Williamsburg in 1933 by the governor of Virginia, according to an act of the general assembly, and now occupies its original position.
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House of Burgesses Chamber , Capitol - This was the meeting room of the House of Burgesses, the lower body of the general assembly, governing the vast Virginia colony. Among the outstanding members of the group during the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason and other famous Virginians. This chamber of the reconstructed capitol has been authentically furnished following old records which ordered: "That the room be furnished with a large armed chair for the speaker to sit in, and a cushion stuft [stuffed] with hair suitable to it, and a table eight foot long and five foot broad." The speaker's chair at the far end of the room was formerly in the capitol, and was taken to Richmond when the seat of government was removed to that city in 1780. It was lent to colonial Williamsburg in 1933 by the governor of Virginia, according to an act of the general assembly, and now occupies its original position.
