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Portrait of Mary Hannah Johnson Claxton in profile, ca. between 1900 and 1920

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Portrait of Mary Hannah Johnson Claxton in profile, ca. between 1900 and 1920

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Title	Portrait of Mary Hannah Johnson Claxton in profile, ca. between 1900 and 1920
Personal name	Claxton, Mary Johnson, 1879-1955--Portraits
Topical entry	Popular Culture Capital City City Government Portraits, American--20th century Portraits--Tennessee--Nashville Public librarians--Tennessee--Nashville Librarians--Tennessee--Nashville Suffragists--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources
Description	A young Mary Hannah Johnson, shown in profile view from the right side. Her shoulders are bare and she is wearing a pearl choker. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, and an active suffragette, Mary Hannah Johnson began and developed the free library system in Nashville and built cooperation with the public schools. She served as the first librarian at Nashville's Carnegie Library, from ca. 1904 to 1912. In April 1912, Johnson married American educator Philander Priestly Claxton. She died in Washington, DC, in 1955. Oil on canvas, artist unknown. The portrait is currently on display in the Nashville Room on the Nashville Public Library's second floor. The library's portraits were photographed as part of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee's Tennessee Portrait Project (http://www.tnportraits.org/index.htm).
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Contributors	National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee
Date	ca. between 1900 and 1920
Type	Still Image; Portraits; Paintings
Format	image/jpeg
Identifier	johnson-mary-head-lg
Relation	Nashville Room Portrait Collection
Coverage	1900-1909; 1910-1919; 1920-1929
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
Location	Open stacks