CALVIN COOLIDGE AUTOGRAPHED STUDIO PORTRAIT by HARRIS & EWING
We have up for your consideration a beautiful piece of presidential, military and American history! This is a framed autographed photo of Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States. The photo was done in and by the Harris & Ewing Studios in Washington DC. This photo is signed by the president and was made out to the current owner’s ancestor. The inscription reads as: “To Colonel Ransom E. Hathorn, With Regards Calvin Coolidge”. The frame measures approximately 18” by 13” with the actual image being about 13” by 9”. It is in BEAUTIFUL condition with the original paper wrapper on the back side of the frame.
Harris & Ewing Photography Studio in Washington DC was photographer to many presidents. Roosevelt encouraged and urged Harris to start a photography service in Washington because it was difficult at the time to get out of town short order images. There were 40 subscribers in their first year and soon they ran the largest photo studio in Washington. Initially the space was rented, but hten purchased in 1924 by Harris. After the building was renovated and dressed in four stories of limestone, President Calvin Coolidge attended the reopening and sat for the first portrait in the new studio.
Colonel Ransom E. Hathorn was born in 1843 in Londonderry, VT where he was educated in the public schools of his native town. He worked with his father in the harness-makers trade until August of 1862 when he enlisted as a private in Company G, Eleventh Regiment Volunteer Infantry. He served for three years in nine engagements and was honorably discharged with his regiment at the end of the war in 1865 for a minor injury at the age of 21. He then moved to Ludlow, VT where he worked for an eventually became owner of a harness making business that was one of the best renowned makers for horse collars in New England at the time. He was a Republican active party in public affairs serving as deputy collector of internal revenue, leading trial justices of the peace, Windsor county senator, Ludlow VT village of trustees, Colonel for Governor Ormsby, VP of VT Officer’s Reunion Society and was the first to be unanimously elected as commander for the state of VT Grand Army of the Republic.
Hathorn is a descendent of John Hathorn, an executer in the Salem Witch Trials. John Hathorn is also the great, great grandfather of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, who changed the spelling of his name due to embarrassment of his ancestor’s involvement of the witch trials. Colonel Hathorn’s second wife, Clara Wright, was the great-great granddaughter of Captain Azeriah Wright of Westminster, VT an officer in the patriot army of the Revolution.
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