Sujet

America Revisited by our Special Artist: western and southern men, Willard’s Hotel, Washington, 1890 Creator: Unknown.

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America Revisited by our Special Artist: western and southern men, Willard's Hotel, Washington, 1890. 'Our Special Artist has been at Washington, the Federal capital of the United States, and has made Sketches of characteristic American figures among the regular customers of Willard's Hotel, where politicians of different sections, business men, "hustlers," and "log-rollers," commercial travellers or "drummers," professional men, journalists, and sporting men from all parts of the Union, are wont to assemble during the Session of Congress...In the lobby and "Under the Dome," at Willard's, after dinner, the floor is crowded with representatives of these various classes: keen, raw-boned Yankees from "Down East"; loud-voiced Western men, each talking of his ranch and stock, or of the price of hogs; "Old Colonels," in the shabby-genteel attire of past years; the Southerner, wearing his soft felt wide-awake hat as no other man could wear it; the Chicago mercantile speculator; the man who is interested in silver mines; the planter, whose wealth is in cotton or tobacco; the Pennsylvania or New England manufacturer; the newspaper proprietor, with editors, correspondents, and reporters; the political "wire-puller," and the agent for private bills'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A57_218

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

12,9Mo (1,3Mo) / 16,6cm x 19,5cm / 1966 x 2300 (300dpi)

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