[House of Representatives (Old House) Office Building], [between 1905 and 1920]
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Detroit Publishing Co., Publisher. [House of Representatives Old House Office Building, Washington, D.C]. [Between 1905 and 1920] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/det1994016357/PP/. (Accessed January 17, 2017.)
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House Office Building (Cannon House Office Building)
The House Chamber in the Capitol opened in 1857, but the number of representatives quickly grew from 193 to 391, as more states joined the Union with westward expansion. As more constituents and growing workloads put increasing amounts of pressure…