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Category Archives: portraits

Gen. John Adams Dix (State House)

A nine-foot-tall portrait of the NH native who, as President Buchanan’s Secretary of the Treasury, set “the hearts of the people everywhere ablaze”…

Posted byMarek12 November, 201213 November, 2012Posted in1860s, Boscawen, Civil War, Concord, John Adams Dix, NH State House, portraits2 Comments on Gen. John Adams Dix (State House)

Harriet Patience Dame (State House)

From a portrait at the NH State House.

Posted byMarek5 November, 201218 March, 2013Posted in1800-1899, 2nd NH, Civil War, Concord, Harriet Patience Dame, medicine, NH people, NH State House, North Barnstead, portraits, SOURCE=NH.govTags:civil war, harriet patience dame, medicine, nurse, state house1 Comment on Harriet Patience Dame (State House)

Col. Joseph Cilley (State House)

From a portrait at the NH State House.

Posted byMarek4 November, 20126 November, 2012Posted in1800-1899, NH people, NH State House, Nottingham, portraits, War of 18121 Comment on Col. Joseph Cilley (State House)

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