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[Spandrels for the main entrance of the House and Senate of the Pennsylvania State Capitol building on display in the marble factory.] [graphic].
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Contributor
Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Title
[Spandrels for the main entrance of the House and Senate of the Pennsylvania State Capitol building on display in the marble factory.] [graphic].
Date
1906
Physical Description
1 photographic print : gelatin silver; 20 x 25.5 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Description
Depicts two completed spandrels on display in the factory where they were produced. Both feature a cherub surrounded by foliage.
Notes
Manuscript note on verso: Duplicate. Spandrils over main entrance - House and Senate. Another in scrapbook.
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.
A description of the spandrils appears in Charles H. Caffin's Handbook of the New Capitol of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pa.: Mount Pleasant Press, 1906) p. 28.
Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Subject
Pennsylvania State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.)
Capitols -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Spandrels -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Associated name
Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.76]
Accession number
P.8479.76
In Collections
Pennsylvania Capitol Collection
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