The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . swept, and self-closing baizedoors erected to keep out the cold air. Strange to say, the light from above, which the artist fought to obtainby the construction of the old dome, and which is similar in the new one, isso diffused that, aided by thousands of shadows and reflections and by thepeculiar colors used in the paintings, it has preserved the Trumbull picturesseventy-three years uncopied save by pencil. Even the vignettes used by thegovernment in the adornment of certain monetary issues are engraved fromsketches. J. K. Hillers, the
The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . swept, and self-closing baizedoors erected to keep out the cold air. Strange to say, the light from above, which the artist fought to obtainby the construction of the old dome, and which is similar in the new one, isso diffused that, aided by thousands of shadows and reflections and by thepeculiar colors used in the paintings, it has preserved the Trumbull picturesseventy-three years uncopied save by pencil. Even the vignettes used by thegovernment in the adornment of certain monetary issues are engraved fromsketches. J. K. Hillers, the photographer of the Geological Survey, and oneof the party who, with Major Powell, first explored the Grand Canon of theColorado, secured them, and the other paintings in the rotunda, for this vol-ume in July, 1897, by a secret process. Declaration of Independence.—Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Living-ston and Sherman, the committee appointed to draft the Declaration of Inde-pendence, reported it to the Continental Congress as Jefferson had written ou Q o ai UJ QZ PJ Qit/3
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