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i-like-old-things · 15 days ago

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"The First Congress"

"The First Congress" by J. Rogers, 1787.

I found this image from a database my school library has with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. I found this particularly interesting because of the collection of figures it incorporates. They (top to bottom, left to right): Patrick Henry, Charles Thomson, Peyton Randolph, Jacob Duché, and Richard Henry Lee. The author included the President of the First Continental Congress (Randolph), the Secretary (Thomson), the Chaplain (Duché), and two major figures of that body (Henry and Lee) but I want to understand why he believed that these 5 individuals were the ones worthy of representing the entire First Continental Congress. I am also interested in how this piece would change had it been created at a different time -- who would be the major players then?

#i love this kind of stuff #like thinking about how things are influenced by the time period in which they were created/happened #i also love historical memory #also they did thomson dirty with the picture they chose im ngl #like everyone else got the cute ones of them in their prime and thomson got the one of him really old #although part of me thinks that this was created after 1787 because of the picture they used for thomson but im not getting into that today #amrev #continental congress #charles thomson #patrick henry #peyton randolph #jacob duché #robert henry lee

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