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English: Painting: The Rev Jacob Duche offers the first prayer for the Continental Congress, September 7, 1774, in Philadelphia, PA. Original painting by Tompkins Harrison Matteson, 1848.
Source http://chaplain.house.gov/chaplaincy/chaplain_brochure.pdf
Author From official brochure (posted online) of the Office of the Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
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Public domain both because this image comes from official federal (House of Representatives) brochure created by an employee of the U.S. federal government in the performance of his duty, and because of the age of the original painting, painted in 1848.

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