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State House Caucus Room

Mary Eliza Watters Risteau (1890-1978)

Artist: Original, Painted by Talmadge of New York, 2012
Medium: Reproduction
MSA SC 1545-6

Mary E. W. Risteau

First woman to serve in the Maryland House of Delegates, 1922-24, 1931-33, 1951-54; First woman to serve in the Maryland Senate, 1935-37;
Inductee, Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, 1988

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Portraits in the State House Caucus Room

Clarence W. Blount

Oden Bowie

Frank Brown

Leonard Calvert

Elihu E. Jackson

Robert McLane

Mary E. W. Risteau

Thomas Swann

Francis Thomas

William P. Whyte

Levin Winder

lANdSCAPE pAINTINGS in the State House Caucus Room

Morning on the Severn

Near Union Bridge

Twilight on Bear Creek

Susquehanna River

The Ark & The Dove

Decorative Arts & SculpTURE in the State House Caucus Room

Reverdy Johnson

US MD Silver Service

1840s Victorian Armchair

1905 Arm chairs