Portraits of forty-two legislators in the first Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas

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Title: Portraits of forty-two legislators in the first Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas
Alternative Title: House, first Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, elected Oct. 4th 1857
Contributor: Needles, John T., 1830-1891, artist.
Fabronius, Dominique C., lithographer.
Published / Created: [1857 or 1858?]
Publication Place: New York? and United States
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Print shows individual portraits of the forty-two legislators in the first Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas; arrayed in five concentric circles with George Washington Deitzler, speaker, of Lawrence, in the center; each portrait within an oval and labeled with the name and town of each representative; based on daguerreotypes by John T. Needles
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Caption at foot of sheet, center: House. First Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas. Elected Oct. 4th 1857.
Text in lower left: Dac by Needels of Leavenworth. Text in lower center: On stone by Fabronius. Text in lower right: Lith. & Published by [unreadable].
Extent: 1 print : 67 x 53 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Lithographs
Portraits
Material: black and white lithograph ;, paper, ink, printing, and single sided
Resource Type: still image
text
Subject (Geographic): Kansas Territory
Subject (Name): Kansas Territory. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
Subject (Topic): Politics and government
Subjects: Kansas Territory. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives > Pictorial works
Kansas Territory > Politics and government > 1854-1861 > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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