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Thomas MacKellar portrait, 1876

A portrait of Thomas McKellar (1812-1899) from the first of two photographic portrait albums assembled by W. Curtis Taylor & Company for the Centennial Exhibition. MacKellar was born in New York.  At the age of 14 he entered the printing establishment of Harper Brothers.  In 1833 he remove...

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Main Author: W. Curtis Taylor And Company (Creator)
Collection:Herbert Welsh Collection (#0702)
Date:1876
Dimensions:30 x 36 cm
Location:914 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA
Box Number:Box 114
Format: Electronic
Subjects and Genres:
MacKellar, Thomas, 1812-1899
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Photographs
Copyright:Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org)
Online Access:https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/13774
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title Thomas MacKellar portrait, 1876
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W. Curtis Taylor And Company
MacKellar, Thomas, 1812-1899
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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description A portrait of Thomas McKellar (1812-1899) from the first of two photographic portrait albums assembled by W. Curtis Taylor & Company for the Centennial Exhibition. MacKellar was born in New York.&nbsp; At the age of 14 he entered the printing establishment of Harper Brothers.&nbsp; In 1833 he removed to Philadelphia and joined the type-foundry firm of Johnson & Smith, as proofreader.&nbsp; He subsequently became a foreman, and then a partner in that firm, which has been known from 1860 as Mackellar, Smiths, and Jordan, type-founders of Philadelphia.&nbsp; His publications include <em>The American Printer</em>, 1866, a prose work.<br /> <br /> This digital record contains one image that depicts one portrait from box 114 (labeled as: Representative Men in Phila. 1876&quot;).
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Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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collection Herbert Welsh Collection
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