In My Father's House There Are Many Mansions

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In My Father's House There Are Many Mansions
In My Father's House There Are Many Mansions
Artist/Maker (American, born Philippines, 1916 - 1990)
Date1936
MediumWoodcut
DimensionsComposition: 9 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. (24.8 × 17.1 cm) Sheet: 12 × 9 1/2 in. (30.5 × 24.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934, H1971
Object number1985.12
Not on view
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Additional Details

Provenance 1985: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of William G. Roehrick.
Signature Signed and dated "Alphonso Ossorio 1936" at lower right in pencil.
Inscribed "25/35" at lower right in pencil.
S. Augustini Confessionum Liber XIII, Cap. XXXV
S. Augustini Confessionum Liber XIII, Cap. XXXV
Alfonso A. Ossorio
Date: 1936
Medium: Woodcut
Object number: 1985.14
Photo by John Bentham.
Night Bird
Alfonso A. Ossorio
Date: 1936
Medium: Woodcut
Object number: 1985.13
My arm (father and child)
My arm (father and child)
Ken Heyman
Date: c. 1960
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.82
Untitled [artist's father-in-law's house, St. Christopher]
Untitled [artist's father-in-law's house, St. Christopher]
Thomas Shotter Boys
Date: likely 1834
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.2
North Carolina - lake with mansion in background
North Carolina - lake with mansion in background
Burt Glinn
Date: 1956
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.131
Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Honoré Daumier
Date: published April 22, 1847
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1928.5
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
Date: September 6, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.288
Photograph by John Bentham.
James Forman, like many of the SNCC field staff, was a powerful stump speaker. Here he works the crowd at the Danville mass meeting. An hour later he will be searched by police holding shotguns and automatic weapons
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.35
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Unknown artist, American
Date: August 13, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.240
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
Date: June 16, 1975
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.267
Father and son working at gas station, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Father and son working at gas station, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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Black worker with blonde children and father
Black worker with blonde children and father
Marc Riboud
Date: 1962
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.136