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Title: [House of Representatives, interior, Harrisburg, Pa.]
Description: Interior view looking toward a second floor balcony in the empty House of Representatives chamber in the Stephen Hills-designed capitol building. Hills designed the building in 1819. The building burned in 1897, and another capitol building was hastily constructed after designs by Henry Ives Cobb. Dissatisfaction with the new building prompted another design competition, which Joseph M. Huston won. His building was constructed from 1902 to 1906 and still stands in Harrisburg today., 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., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator: Dillon, Jas. L., photographer
Date: ca. 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8606.15]

Title: [Executive, Library & Museum Building, interior, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Interior view showing the east entrance vestibule of the library. Planks of wood lean against the wall in the adjacent room, indicating that construction probably wasn't completed when the photograph was taken., Inscribed in negative: John T. Windrim, architect. Doyle & Doak, contractors., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., The Executive, Library, and Museum Building was erected in 1893-1894 after designs by John T. Windrim. It was built to house the state's archives and historical artifacts, its library, the Civil War battle flag collection, records from the early Department of State and offices for the Governor. Renamed in 1999 in honor of Speaker Matthew J. Ryan., Reproduced in Capitol Preservation Committee, The Executive, Library and Museum Building: A Capitol Treasure Celebrates 100 Years, 1894-1994, p. 56., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator: Musser, Frank E., photographer
Date: ca. 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8606.2]

Title: [Executive, Library & Museum Building, interior of doorway, Harrisburg, Pa.]
Description: Interior view showing detailed pattern on the door and frame, looking toward the second floor balcony and staircase., Inscribed in negative: John T. Windrim, architect. Doyle & Doak, contractors., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., The Executive, Library, and Museum Building was erected in 1893-1894 after designs by John T. Windrim. It was built to house the state's archives and historical artifacts, its library, the Civil War battle flag collection, records from the early Department of State and offices for the Governor. Renamed in 1999 in honor of Speaker Matthew J. Ryan., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator: Musser, Frank E., photographer
Date: ca. 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8606.3]

Title: [Executive, Library & Museum Building, interior of main staircase, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Interior view showing a wide staircase leading up to a decorative, arched doorway. Marble eagles with crests sit on the pillars at the bottom of the stairs. Arcades flank the central staircase on the bottom floor, creating second floor balconies on both sides., Inscribed in negative: John T. Windrim, architect. Doyle & Doak, contractors., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., The Executive, Library, and Museum Building was erected in 1893-1894 after designs by John T. Windrim. It was built to house the state's archives and historical artifacts, its library, the Civil War battle flag collection, records from the early Department of State and offices for the Governor. Renamed in 1999 in honor of Speaker Matthew J. Ryan., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator: Musser, Frank E., photographer
Date: ca. 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8606.4]

Title: [Executive, Library & Museum building, interior view showing decorative, arched doorway, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Detailed view of a decorative, arched doorway at the top of a wide staircase. Columns adorned with floral motifs support an entablature with five portrait medallions sculpted in the frieze., Inscribed in negative: John T. Windrim, architect. Doyle & Doak, contractors., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., The Executive, Library, and Museum Building was erected in 1893-1894 after designs by John T. Windrim. It was built to house the state's archives and historical artifacts, its library, the Civil War battle flag collection, records from the early Department of State and offices for the Governor. Renamed in 1999 in honor of Speaker Matthew J. Ryan., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator: Musser, Frank E., photographer
Date: ca. 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8606.5]

Title: [Antique urn in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy]
Description: Detailed view of an urn, showing an unidentified mythological scene. Possibly used as a model for an ornament in the Capitol., Inscribed in negative: (Edne. Alinari) P. 1. N. 1324. Firenze - R. Galleria Uffizi. Vase Mediceo. La parte ove e Diomede. (Scultura antica.), 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., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: ca. 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.78]

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