Details
Contributor Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Title [Standard for the Rotunda of the Pennsylvania State Capitol building, with craftsman] [graphic].
Date ca. 1905
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver mounted on cardboard ; 9.5 x 24.5 cm. (3.75 x 9.5 in.), on mount 14 x 31 cm. (5.5 x 12 in.)
Description View of a standard lamp with a bronze column and elaborate pedestal. A workman, probably from the bronze factory, is standing beside it. Similar floor lamps were used throughout the Capitol building, constructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston.
Notes Stamped on verso: Jas. J. Butler, 476 9th Ave., N.Y. City.
Typed label on verso: Typed label on verso: Standard for the State Capitol Building. Mr Joseph M. Huston, Architect. 11' 10" without globes, 13'2" with globes. Weight 1750 lbs. S. 8 A. Bronze. Four of this class.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol.
An image of this standard appears in Charles H. Caffin's Handbook of the New Capitol of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pa.: Mount Pleasant Press, 1906) p. 24.
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. 243.
LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48.
Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Subject Pennsylvania State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.)
Light fixtures -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Standards -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Portraits -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.52]
Accession number P.8479.52