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The Courtroom Bench:
A section of the original mahogany Bench facade from the Supreme Court Chamber in the US Capitol, where the Court met from 1860 to 1935. As is still the practice today, nine individual desks for the Justices are houses behind the Bench facade.
(left) Photograph of the Bench in the Supreme Court Chamber, by Barnett M. Clinedinst, Jr., c 1900. |