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Joseph R. Hawley portrait, 1876
A portrait of Joseph Roswell Hawley (1826-1905) from the second of two photographic portrait albums assembled by W. Curtis Taylor & Company for the Centennial Exhibition. Hawley was the 42nd Governor of Connecticut, a U.S. politician in the Republican and Free Soil parties, a Civil War general, and...
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| Collection: | Herbert Welsh Collection (#0702) |
| Date: | 1876 |
| Dimensions: | 30 x 36 cm |
| Location: | 914 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA |
| Box Number: | Box 115 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/13772 |
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A portrait of Joseph Roswell Hawley (1826-1905) from the second of two photographic portrait albums assembled by W. Curtis Taylor & Company for the Centennial Exhibition. Hawley was the 42nd Governor of Connecticut, a U.S. politician in the Republican and Free Soil parties, a Civil War general, and a journalist and newspaper editor. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was a four-term U.S. Senator. From 1873 to 1876, he served as president of the United States Centennial Commission, which planned and ran the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. This digital record contains one image that depicts one portrait from box 115 (labeled as: Representative Men in Phila. 1876"). |
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