Henry Kane Portrait
c. 1900
Black and white studio portrait of Henry Kane as an older man, wearing a Grand Army of the Republic uniform characterized by a hat bearing the laurel wreath G.A.R. insignia. He is seated at 3/4 angle to the camera. Handwritten on bottom "Henry Kane - 1844-1911" Handwritten on back: "Mr. Kane". People: Kane, Henry
More about this item
- Identifier
- ghs0252
- Description
- Black and white studio portrait of Henry Kane as an older man, wearing a Grand Army of the Republic uniform characterized by a hat bearing the laurel wreath G.A.R. insignia. He is seated at 3/4 angle to the camera. Handwritten on bottom "Henry Kane - 1844-1911" Handwritten on back: "Mr. Kane". People: Kane, Henry
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Date
- c. 1900
- Provenance
- Henry Kane enlisted in the U.S. Civil War as a musician at age 15. On 8/27/1864 he was mustered into K Company, 38th Wisconsin Infantry and was a fife player with the regiment until being mustered out on 6/2/1865. He came west on an emigrant train to San Francisco in 1878 and sailed north to Portland, where he settled in Powell's Valley near the present-day site of Mt. Hood Community College. His name is now found on a major north-south thoroughfare in east Gresham. The Grand Army of the Republic was an organization for Union veterans of the Civil War.
- Type
- StillImage
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
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