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URN05CG200407211034
Work Typephotograph
TitleVirginia Colonial Capitol
CreatorCharles T. Goodsell
Rolephotographer
SubjectPublic buildings --Virginia -- Williamsburg
RepositoryDigital Library and Archives. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Repository LocationBlacksburg, Va.
Nationality/CultureUnited States
Related WorkMs2004-012. American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples by Charles T. Goodsell. (Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2001)
NotesExterior; Where Virginia's Genral Assembly convened from 1704 to 1780. Here an embarrassed and stammering George Washington was applauded by fellow burgesses for his part in the French and Indian War; here patrick Henry defiantly protested the Stamp Act until accused of treason; and here George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights was passed.
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CopyrightDigital Library and Archives