Details
Creator Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer.
Contributor Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, manufacturer.
Title [Standard for the Executive Reception Room, Pennsylvania State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pa.] [graphic].
Date 1906
Physical Description 1 photographic print : platinum mounted on cardboard ; 24.5 x 19.5 cm. (9.5 x 7.75 in.), on mount 44 x 36 cm. (17 x 14 in.)
Description View of a bronze ornamental floor lamp with one tier of globes surmounted by one large, bronze-capped globe in the corner of the Executive Reception Room. Three cherubs playing horns are carved into the post below the globes. Similarly designed standard lamps were used throughout the Capitol building, contructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston.
Notes Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol.
Reproduced in Charles H. Caffin's Handbook of the New Capitol of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pa.: Mount Pleasant Press, 1906), p. 59.
LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48.
Mounting board badly stained.
Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Subject Pennsylvania State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.)
Light fixtures -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Standards -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Genre Platinum prints -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Associated name Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, manufacturer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.97]
Accession number P.8479.97