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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber: Thomas Jefferson's Appointment
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber. Friday, May 9, 2014. While Continental Congress was holding session in Annapolis in the Old Senate Chamber, the room inevitably bore witness to several significant events in our nation’s history. Visitors to the State House will undoubtedly hear about Washington's resignation. And even the ratification of the Treaty of Paris. Painted by Mather Brown in London, 1786. Image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. The Storming of the Bastille. The State House Office of Inte...
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber: February 2015
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber. Friday, February 20, 2015. George Washington’s Speech is Unveiled! On President’s Day this year, visitors to the State House and the Maryland General Assembly had cause to celebrate. George Washington’s handwritten copy of his resignation speech was at last unveiled in the rotunda, where it will remain, in a new case constructed specifically for its permanent display. Since being acquired by the state of Maryland. Friends of the Maryland State Archives. This blog documents ...
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber: The Treaty of Paris is Ratified
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber. Friday, January 10, 2014. The Treaty of Paris is Ratified. Washington’s resignation was far from the only significant event to occur while Congress was in session in the Old Senate Chamber. On January 14, 1784, the Treaty of Paris was ratified, officially ending the American Revolution and making the Maryland State House the first official peacetime capitol of the United States. As the deadline quickly approached, delegates began to worry that they would be unable to reach ...
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber: Congress Arrives in Annapolis
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber. Tuesday, November 26, 2013. Congress Arrives in Annapolis. Portrait of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, one of Maryland's signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Senate President in 1783. Painted by Thomas Sully, 1834, Maryland State Archives, MSA SC 1545-1114. Nassau Hall, where Congress met before relocating to the Maryland State House. Image courtesy of the Princeton University Archives, 1853. Votes of Proceedings of the Senate, November 1783 Session, page 8.
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber: Portrait for the Revolution
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber. Monday, April 28, 2014. Portrait for the Revolution. Many famous works of art have at one time or another decorated the walls of the Old Senate Chamber. From portraits of the four Maryland signers of the Declaration of Independence, to Charles Willson Peale's Washington, Lafayette, and Tilghman at Yorktown. And Edwin White’s massive Washington Resigning His Commission. The Old Senate Chamber has undergone a multitude of aesthetic changes. Charles Willson Peale's William Pitt.
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber: O'Malley Gives a Sneak Peek into the Old Senate Chamber
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber. Friday, January 16, 2015. O'Malley Gives a Sneak Peek into the Old Senate Chamber. On a press tour this Friday, Governor Martin O’Malley gave the media their first look at the Old Senate Chamber since the room’s doors were closed to the public nearly two years ago as part of the restoration. Governor Martin O'Malley talks to the press about the restoration of the Old Senate Chamber. Image taken 16 January 2015. From the Baltimore Sun. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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History of slavery in Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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History of slavery in Maryland. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Field slaves in the United States. By country or region. Slavery on the Barbary Coast. Human trafficking in Australia. Slave raiding in Easter Island. Human trafficking in Papua New Guinea. Sex trafficking in Europe. Germany in World War II. Middle East and North Africa. Human trafficking in the Middle East. 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Great Dismal Swamp maroons. Treatment in U.S. From England supplied much of th...
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber: 231 Years Ago: A Rush to Ratify the Treaty of Paris
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Maryland's Old Senate Chamber. Wednesday, January 14, 2015. 231 Years Ago: A Rush to Ratify the Treaty of Paris. Most students of American history know the story of the signing of the Treaty of Paris at the end of the American Revolution. However, few are aware of the tensions felt by Congress to ratify the treaty in time and the final dramatic race to return the ratified copy to the peace commissioners by the agreed-upon deadline. American painter, and mentor to Charles Willson Peale. Image of a period ...