Details
Creator Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer.
Contributor Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Oakley, Violet, 1874-1960, artist.
Title Executive reception room. [graphic].
Date 1906
Physical Description 1 photographic print : platinum mounted on cardboard ; 20 x 24 cm. (7.5 x 9.5 in.), on mount 36 x 44 cm. (14 x 17 in.)
Description Interior view of the Governor's ornately decorated reception room in the Capitol building, showing heavily embellished lightposts and a chandelier, a long table, fireplace, gilded ceiling and murals created in 1902 by Violet Oakley depicting William Penn's founding of Pennsylvania.
Notes Photographer's signature on recto.
Manuscript note on verso: Executive Reception Room
Under the terms of Miss Oakley's contract she was "to design and paint...fifteen panels..approximately six feet in height...to form a frieze between the top of the wainscoating and the plaster cornice in the grand Executive Reception Room...These paintings shall be illustrative or allegorical of the history of the 'Founding of the State'..."
The Pennsylvania State Capitol building was constructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol.
LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48.
Reproduced in the article entitled "A Costly Triumph" by Harold J. Howland in the Saturday, January 26, 1907 issue of "The Outlook", p. 207. A description of the room and the murals appears on pp. 199-200.
For related views see P.8479.3, P.8479.9-10, P.8479.13, P.8479.44
Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Subject Pennsylvania State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.)
Capitols -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Murals -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Reception rooms -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Genre Platinum prints -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Associated name Oakley, Violet, 1874-1960, artist.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.45]
Accession number P.8479.45