The gallery·1905
Samuel Hanna
Leaf 80. This plate carries no printed page number.
What the sheet says
The caption is the sitter's own hand, reproduced on the plate:
Yours Affectionately Saml. Hanna
Hanna built or backed much of what the county had by 1850: the road, the canal, the bank and the railroad.
What it is
Steel engraving. This is a subscription plate: the subject paid to appear in the book.
The plate bears the mark Engraved by J. C. Buttre. That is what the sheet carries, not an attribution for every hand in it.
Named on it
- Samuel Hanna
Where it comes from
History of the Maumee River Basin, volume 3, Allen County, 1905, leaf n80. Public domain. Published before 1929, so out of copyright in the United States. Internet Archive. Volume 3 is the Allen County volume, by Col. Robert S. Robertson. The imprint was not read off the title page.
Leaf n80. No printed border: a portrait plate inserted between printed pages 80 and 81, facing the start of the Samuel Hanna biography, and served whole. Served at 2232 by 3757.