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Mrs. F.C. Sessions home photograph
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Mrs. F.C. Sessions home photograph

"Caption reads "Residence of Mrs. F.C. Sessions, 478 E. Broad St., 1898." Frances Charles Sessions (1820-1892) was a successful dry goods merchant who moved to Columbus in 1840. He was the secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission and established the Soldier's Home. He married Mary Johnson (1823-1919), the only child of Orange Johnson, a businessman from Worthington, in 1847. Orange Johnson and his wife shared this residence with the Sessions' starting in 1862. The Columbus Art Museum, opened in 1931, now stands on this site."

Date
1898
Photographer / author
Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
3,778 × 2,921 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (Works Progress Administration).

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"Mrs. F.C. Sessions home photograph" (1898). Ohio Federal Writers' Project, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mrs._F.C._Sessions_home_photograph.png

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