Scenes in the House of Representatives on passage of Thirteenth Amendment, January 31, 1865, artist's impression, detail

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Scanned by: 

Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date: 

07/03/2013

Notes: 

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, April 28, 2014.

Depicted content: 

• Theodore M. Pomeroy to Elizabeth L.W. Pomeroy, February 1, 1865
• In Washington D.C., the House of Representatives passes the Thirteen Amendment outlawing slavery
• Stevens, Thaddeus
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Kelley, William Darrah
• Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States

Image type: 

engraving

Original caption: 

SCENE IN THE HOUSE ON THE PASSAGE OF THE PROPOSITION TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION, JANUARY 31, 1865.

Source citation: 

Harper's Weekly Magazine, February 18, 1865, p. 97.

Source note: 

Cropped from the larger image, also available here.