Capitol page of the Senate shown filling the snuff boxes that are in the Senate Chamber which have been there for years and from tradition are always filled at the opening of Congress
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- Date
- 1939
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 10,106 × 8,096 pixels
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