Louise Henry Harrison

Photograph

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Patrick Henry's Red Hill

Name/Title

Louise Henry Harrison

Entry/Object ID

77.22

Description

Black-and-white photograph of Louise Henry Harrison, daughter of Lucy Gray Henry Harrison, as a young girl of about ten years old. It shows Louise Harrison in gloves, a dress coat, and a hat, with an elegant matching scarf and a ruff resting on a silver chain. Some wear and scuffs to both the picture and the cardboard frame. Stamped onto the lower right-hand corner of the cardboard is the trademark of the photographic studio--"Hemier & Clark/ Richmond, VA".

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Cabinet Card

Made/Created

Artist

Hemier and Clark

Date made

1898 - 1901

Place

* Untyped Place

Richmond, Virginia

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Makers Mark

Location

Obverse, lower right corner

Transcription

Hemier & Clark Richmond, VA

Language

English

Material/Technique

Inscribed

Dimensions

Width

4 in

Length

5-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

Details: Cardboard Mount: 6 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches

Provenance

Notes

This photograph of Louise Henry Harrison (1888–1920) was taken around 1900 by the photography studio of Hemier and Clark in Richmond, Virginia. Louise Harrison was the daughter of Lucy Gray Henry Harrison (1857–1944) and a great-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry. Louise had a short life and suffered from dementia praecox (meaning "premature dementia" or "precocious madness"), an outdated diagnosis for schizophrenia. She died in Mt. Hope Retreat, a mental asylum in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 26, 1920, of tuberculosis. The photograph was donated to the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation by George Shreve on August 16, 1977.