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English: Detail from Government. Mural by Elihu Vedder. Lobby to Main Reading Room, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Main figure is seated atop a pedestal saying "GOVERNMENT" and holding a tablet saying "A GOVERNMENT / OF THE PEOPLE / BY THE PEOPLE / FOR THE PEOPLE". Artist's signature is "ELIHU VEDDER / ROMA–1896".
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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-02036 (original digital file), uncompressed archival TIFF version (76 MB), cropped and converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.4.5, image quality 88.

Date

1896

Author

Artist is Elihu Vedder (1836–1923). Photographed 2007 by Carol Highsmith (1946–), who explicitly placed the photograph in the public domain.

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