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Title: Addition to Senate Chambers, Harrisburg, Pa
Description: Exterior view of the brick wing that was home to the Senate 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 H. Windrim and his son John T. Windrim were commissioned to performed many alterations and upgrades to the building from 1895 to 1897., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator: Dillon, Jas. L., photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8606.23]

Title: [Senate Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa.]
Description: Interior view looking northeast at the front of the Senate Chamber, showing the president's seat and two arches on the wall behind the speaker's platform, not yet filled with Edwin Austin Abbey's mural paintings representing historic episodes in the development of the Commonwealth. Rows of desks are visible, along with the heavy candelabra hanging from the gilded ceiling., 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., Forms part of the photograph album in the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.103.26]

Title: [Senate Chamber ceiling, from visitor's gallery, Pennsylvania State Capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa.]
Description: Interior view looking north from the visitor's gallery in the Senate Chamber, showing a detailed view of the cove, ceiling and the outlines of the ocular stained glass windows designed by William Brantley Van Ingen., 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. 46., Forms part of the photograph album in the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.103.28]

Title: [ "Militia" window in Senate Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa.]
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., 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.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.103.29a]

Title: [ Senate caucus room, Pennsylvania State Capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa.]
Description: Depicts rows of chairs separated from the podium by balustrades in the Senate caucus room, which is situated in the North Corridor of the Capitol building. Panels of mahogany line the walls and light fixtures hang from the guilloche-patterned ceiling., 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. 39, with a detailed description of the Senate Caucus Room, pp. 39-40., Forms part of the photograph album in the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.103.30]

Title: Senate
Description: Interior view of the Senate Chamber, looking down from a balcony at individual wooden desks in rows on the Senate floor., Photographer's imprint stamped on recto., Title from manuscript note on verso., 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., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.14]

Title: [Senate Chamber, visitor's gallery, Pennsylvania State Capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa.]
Description: Interior view looking south from the speaker's podium at the Senate Chamber, showing rows of desks and the visitor's gallery in the rear. Notice the ornate bronze work of the balconies and the heavy bronze candelabra hanging from the ceiling., Copyrighed by S.C. Huston., 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) p. 47, and in article entitled "A Costly Triumph" by Harold J. Howland in the Saturday, January 26, 1907 issue of "The Outlook," pg. 198., Forms part of the photograph album in the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: c1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.103.27]

Title: [ "Religion" window in Senate Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa.]
Description: Detailed view of the ocular stained glass window, Religion, 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 seated female figure looking upward, next to a cross. A wreath surmounted by an eagle, frames the window., 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. 55, with a detailed description of the Van Ingen windows, pp. 52-53., Forms part of the photograph album in the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.103.29b]

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