Title

George Kennan, half-length portrait, facing left, 1865. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

George Kennan, half-length portrait, facing left, 1865. Printed on recto of photograph: Home Sweet Home. Inscribed on verso: G.K. - 1st trip to Siberia, 19 or 20 years old. Taken in 1865. This picture represents George in Siberia next winter sitting on the head of an empty mackerel cask warming his congealed fingers over a little fire thinking of childhood's happy hours where he could warm himself by an air tight stove.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A03_187

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

42,9Mb (2,0Mb) / 10,1in x 16,5in / 3026 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

portrait North America library sitting British Columbia British color photography tent tents location Victorian century empire Britain border survey seated B&W theodolite frontier Library of Congress Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black 1860s albumen print nineteenth century British Empire Charles photograph portrait Unknown Robert Haig Congressional Library Heritage Art albumen print 19th-century still image Group portrait Meeting of Frontiers British North American Boundary Commission Charles Darrah Darrah Robert Haig