Details
Contributor Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Title [Governor's private office, Pennsylvania State Capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa.] [graphic].
Date 1906
Physical Description 1 photographic print : platinum on cardboard mount ; 14.5 x 23 cm. (5.5 x 9 in.), on mount 28.5 x 36 cm. (11 x 14 in.)
Description Interior view of elaborately decorated office showing paneled walls, fireplace, oak over-mantel, candelabras and governor's desk. Depicts the room before portrait paintings of former Pennsylvania Governors lined the walls of the office.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
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 Charles H. Caffin's Handbook of the New Capitol of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pa.: Mount Pleasant Press, 1906) pg. 57.
Forms part of the photograph album in the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Subject Pennsylvania State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.)
Pennsylvania. Governor. -- Facilities.
Capitols -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Governors -- Pennsylvania -- Portraits.
Offices -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Genre Platinum prints -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.103.19]
Accession number P.8479.103.19