Creating the United States

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Taxation without Representation

Taxation without Representation (129.01.00)

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On the 156th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the absence of any representatives in Congress from the District of Columbia is protested in this 1929 image by political cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman (1869–1949). An eighteenth-century man is seated in a chair looking at a poster commemorating the tea party, while outside the window can be seen the Capitol, labeled “Voteless Washington.”
On the 156th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the absence of any representatives in Congress from the District of Columbia is protested in this 1929 image by political cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman (1869–1949). An eighteenth-century man is seated in a chair looking at a poster commemorating the tea party, while outside the window can be seen the Capitol, labeled “Voteless Washington.”