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36 THE CAPITOL DOME Louis S. Schofield (fig. 9) was employed by the BEP from 1888 to 1935. He was a member of the renowned Sartain family of Philadelphia; his grandfather John Sartain was a famous mezzotint engraver, and several of John's children were accomplished artists. During his almost 50 years at the BEP, Schofield engraved hundreds of postage stamps and vignettes, and was considered to be one of the Bureau's most talented engravers. 10 In addition to the Capitol vignette on the back of the $50 bill, he engraved the vignette of the Treasury Department that appeared on the back of the $10 bill from 1928 to 1999. Schofield was also an amateur pho- tographer who enjoyed taking pictures of his coworkers, a hobby that has greatly benefitted the historic collections of the HRC (fig. 10). George Frederick Cumming Smillie (1854-1924), also known as G.F.C. or Fred, was one of the most prominent and prolific engravers ever to work for the BEP (fig. 11). As a younger member of "one of the most active and influ- ential families in the art circles of New York City," he seems genetically destined to have become a bank note engraver. His Scottish-born father William Cumming Smillie (1813- 1908) and uncle James Smillie (1807-85) were pioneers in bank note engraving. (Uncle James worked for both the National and American Bank Note companies at various times, and engraved the Post Office's famous 1869 pictorial issue stamps of three of the historic scenes depicted in the Capitol Rotunda.) James's son James David Smillie (1833- 1909) was a famous painter and illustrator, as was his other son, Fred's cousin George Henry Smillie (1840-1921), and BEP HISTORICAL RESOURCE CENTER Fig. 9. Engraver Louis S. Schofield, c. 1909 BEP HISTORICAL RESOURCE CENTER Fig. 10. Louis Schofield photographing fellow engraver George U. Rose, Jr.