Details
Contributor Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Decorative Stained Glass Company, manufacturer.
Van Ingen, W.B. 1858-1955, artist.
Title ["Militia" window in Senate Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa.] [graphic].
Date 1906
Physical Description 1 photographic print : platinum on cardboard mount ; 9.5 x 9.5 cm. (4 x 4 in.), on mount 28.5 x 36 cm. (11 x 14 in.)
Description Detailed view of the ocular stained glass window, Militia, designed by William Brantley Van Ingen and and executed by Thomas Wright and John Calvin of the Decorative Stained Glass Company of New York. Shows a female figure holding a bayonet, symbolizing military purpose, and a keystone representing civic organization.
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. 49, with a detailed description of the Van Ingen windows, pp. 47-48.
Forms part of the photograph album in the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Subject Pennsylvania State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.)
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Capitols -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Stained glass -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Genre Platinum prints -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Associated name Van Ingen, W.B. (William Brantley), 1858-1955, artist.
Associated name Decorative Stained Glass Company, manufacturer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.103.29a]
Accession number P.8479.103.29a