Capitol Gallery

EVCW2A-00145

Black regiment of the Union army entering Richmond, Virginia, after its own citizens burned ithe city, April 3, 1865, near the end of the Civil War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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PPRE2A-00147

Cartoon of President Theodore Roosevelt as a muckraker cleaning up the meat scandal.
Hand-colored halftone of a 20th-century illustration

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Richmond, Virginia, burned by the Confederates, 1865

Citizens huddled in Capitol Square during the burning of Richmond by its own people, 1865.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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