Collection Highlights
Edwin Booth as Hamlet
Date:
1870-1879
Object Number:
PR.104.3
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Mrs. J. Phillip Schmand (1874-1968)
Object Number:
1943.277
Date:
ca. 1912
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 61 x 36 in. ( 154.9 x 91.4 cm )
Gallery Label:
Wilhelmine Joan Steeg was the daughter of Francis Steeg and Emma A. (Scheidweiler) Steeg of New York. She married J. Phillip Schmand (1871-1942) on December 27, 1911. In 1943 Mrs. Schmand, who was an associate member of N-YHS from that year until her death, gave the Society a number of portraits by her husband who had died the year before; among these were five of herself.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Phillip Schmand
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
