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Image Title: Mistress Columbia, Who Has Been Taking A Nap, Suddenly Wakes Up And Calls Her Noisy Scholars To Order, 1860

Date: 1860 January 7.

Summary: Columbia seated at desk at the front of a classroom with members of Congress seated on each side of the room divided by the Mason-Dixon line, the North on the left and the South on the right; there is fighting among those in the foreground, others are studying the Constitution.

Subjects: Classrooms--United States--1860
Columbia (Symbolic character)--1860
Fighting--United States--1860
Legislators--United States--1860

Original Media: Engraving

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