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Death of John Quincy Adams at the U.S. Capitol, Feby 23d 1848 simple xmas tree George Reef Lighthouse Architectural PlansDeath of John Quincy Adams at the U. S. Capitol, Feby 23d 1848. The old man eloquent collapsed at his desk in the House chamber, felled mid debate over the Mexican War, and this lithograph gathers the colleagues around him with the hushed theatricality reserved for a republic losing one of its last living links to the Founding. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the