Details
Creator Dillon, Jas. L. photographer.
Contributor Hills, Stephen, architect.
Windrim, John T. 1866-1934, architect.
Title House of Representatives, Harrisburg, Pa. [graphic].
Date ca. 1894
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver mounted on cardboard ; 15 x 20 cm. (6 x 8 in.), on mount 25 x 31 cm. (10 x 12 in.)
Description Exterior view of the brick wing that was home to House of Representatives in the Stephen Hills-designed capitol building.
Notes Title inscribed in negative.
Photographer's label pasted on verso.
James Hamilton Windrim was commissioned in 1877 to add a one-story extension to the House side of the Stephen Hills-designed Capitol building in Harrisburg to accomodate new members of the General Assembly. From 1895 to 1897 he was commissioned, with his son John T. Windrim, to perform alterations and upgrades on the building.
Reproduced in The Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee's Literature in Stone: The Hundred Year History of Pennsylvania's State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.: Integra Graphics, 2006), p. 57.
Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Subject Pennsylvania General Assembly. House of Representatives -- Buildings.
Pennsylvania State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.)
Capitols -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Hills, Stephen, architect.
Associated name Windrim, John T. (John Torrey), 1866-1934, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8606.11]
Accession number P.8606.11