Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Lowe
Title:
[Title not known]
Collection Title Date:
1870-1963
Title Date:
1954.
Dimensions:
h4.18 in. x w7.18 in.
Current Location:
UCR/California Museum of Photography
Address:
Riverside, California 92521
Object ID:
KU105146
Provenance:
Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography,
University of California, Riverside
Object Type:
Stereograph. Silver Gelatin Photoprint.
Heading:
Inscription
Notes:
The Capitol - Once the seat of government of a vast and powerful colonial province that stretched to the Mississippi, the colonial capitol building has been carefully reconstructed to its appearance of the early 1700's. Here met the House of Burgesses, American's first representative legislative assembly, the important governor's council, and the high court. The structure was ordered built in 1699 when Williamsburg became the capitol of the Virginia colony. It was in the 18th century capitol in Williamsburg that Patrick Henry gave his famous "Caesar-Brutus" speech against the stamp act and the first call for a final separation from England was issued. Now an exhibition building of Eolonial [Colonial] Williamsburg, the historic structure has been authentically furnished according to old records. From its cupola the British "Great union" flag, now obsolete, flies daily as it did two centuries ago.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/kt2f59p2k t

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