William H. Mortensen as Director of the Bushnell Memorial
SubjectPortrait of
William H. Mortensen
American, 1903 - 1990
PhotographerPhotographed by
Einar G. Chindmark
American
PhotographerPhotographed by
Kula Studios
American, 1944 - 2010
PhotographerPhotographed by
Ed Lescoe
American
PhotographerPhotographed by
Grube Camera Shop
American
PhotographerPhotographed by
Ellery G. Kington
PhotographerPhotographed by
Roger J. Page
American
PhotographerPhotographed by
Dick Spafford
American, 1921 - 2013
PhotographerPhotographed by
Wardwell G. Hadley
American
PhotographerPhotographed by
Arman G. Hatsian
American
PhotographerPhotographed by
Grover W. Grogan
American
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
PhotographerPhotographed by
S. Robert Pugliese
American
PhotographerPhotographed by
Ted Kosinski
American
PhotographerPhotographed by
Sylvian E. Ofiara
American
Date1938-1971
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 7 1/2 x 9 1/2in. (19.1 x 24.1cm)
Sheet (height x width): 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)
Sheet (height x width): 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Trice D. Mortensen
DescriptionPhotographs that document the career of William H. Mortensen as director of The Bushnell Memorial. Included are receptions, dinners, theatrical openings, a book signing, and general publicity photographs with individuals or groups of people.
Most of the people are identified. They include: Alice C. Mortensen; Mary Seaverns; Virginia Seaverns Hilyard; Charles Bushnell Seaverns; Bob Killian; Allen Widem; Lee [Leland S.] Jamieson; Leverett Wright (Mortensen's successor at The Bushnell); Henry Needles; Lou Cohen; Francis Murphy; Elmer Mortensen; William Cole; Alfred Fuller of Fuller Brush Co.; Governor John Dempsey; Mayor Anne Uccello; Governor Abraham Ribicoff; Paul C. Landerman, orchestra leader; Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader; D. Daniel; Jane Watson; Anne Heublein; Boake Carter (news radio announcer); Harrison Harris; William Dungan; Dr. Henry Katz; Gregory P. Ziemack; E. Barrie Smith; John Bonee; Charles C. Cunningham; Howard Cohen; Sam Wilkes; former Mount Holyoke College president Dr. Roswell Ham; Laura C. Johnson; Clare Booth Luce; Justice Raymond E. Baldwin; conductor of the New York philharmonic symphony orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos; John D. Lodge; Lt. Governor Anthony Armentano; Murray H. Cohen; Joe di Stefano; Benedict Abile; Mary Hooker; Mayor William J. Rankin; Roger W. Davis; Albert Coote; filmmaker Julien Bryan; Vice President Bentzen of Danish National Symphony; Stanley Vicas; J. Alfred Bedlow; Moscow state symphony soprano Galina Vishnevskaya; Concordia Gregorieff; Charles G. Steinway of Steinway and Sons; Charles W. Rush of Watkins Bros.; Appleton Seaverns; Eugene Ormandy (conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra); Oakdale Musical Theater producers Ben Segal and Buster Bonoff; Police Chief Micheal J. Godfrey; Harry Shaw; Frank Lacava; Fred LeVarge; Willard Rogers; Laurence Whittmore; and Lieutenant Governor Allen Murphy.
Most of the events appear to take place in the Hartford area, many in the interior of The Bushnell Memorial itself. There is an exterior view of the Bushnell Memorial with the Lafayette Monument in the foreground. Other places include the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts; an interior of the Heublein Hotel; the Clam Box Restaurant in Wethersfield, an interior of the Statler Hotel,
Several images of Bushnell Memorial ushers' banquets with William H. Mortensen wearing funny hats, carving ribs and a piece of meat, and holding a carving knife and fork.
Most of the people are identified. They include: Alice C. Mortensen; Mary Seaverns; Virginia Seaverns Hilyard; Charles Bushnell Seaverns; Bob Killian; Allen Widem; Lee [Leland S.] Jamieson; Leverett Wright (Mortensen's successor at The Bushnell); Henry Needles; Lou Cohen; Francis Murphy; Elmer Mortensen; William Cole; Alfred Fuller of Fuller Brush Co.; Governor John Dempsey; Mayor Anne Uccello; Governor Abraham Ribicoff; Paul C. Landerman, orchestra leader; Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader; D. Daniel; Jane Watson; Anne Heublein; Boake Carter (news radio announcer); Harrison Harris; William Dungan; Dr. Henry Katz; Gregory P. Ziemack; E. Barrie Smith; John Bonee; Charles C. Cunningham; Howard Cohen; Sam Wilkes; former Mount Holyoke College president Dr. Roswell Ham; Laura C. Johnson; Clare Booth Luce; Justice Raymond E. Baldwin; conductor of the New York philharmonic symphony orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos; John D. Lodge; Lt. Governor Anthony Armentano; Murray H. Cohen; Joe di Stefano; Benedict Abile; Mary Hooker; Mayor William J. Rankin; Roger W. Davis; Albert Coote; filmmaker Julien Bryan; Vice President Bentzen of Danish National Symphony; Stanley Vicas; J. Alfred Bedlow; Moscow state symphony soprano Galina Vishnevskaya; Concordia Gregorieff; Charles G. Steinway of Steinway and Sons; Charles W. Rush of Watkins Bros.; Appleton Seaverns; Eugene Ormandy (conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra); Oakdale Musical Theater producers Ben Segal and Buster Bonoff; Police Chief Micheal J. Godfrey; Harry Shaw; Frank Lacava; Fred LeVarge; Willard Rogers; Laurence Whittmore; and Lieutenant Governor Allen Murphy.
Most of the events appear to take place in the Hartford area, many in the interior of The Bushnell Memorial itself. There is an exterior view of the Bushnell Memorial with the Lafayette Monument in the foreground. Other places include the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts; an interior of the Heublein Hotel; the Clam Box Restaurant in Wethersfield, an interior of the Statler Hotel,
Several images of Bushnell Memorial ushers' banquets with William H. Mortensen wearing funny hats, carving ribs and a piece of meat, and holding a carving knife and fork.
Object number2002.87.82-.142
InscribedSome of the photographs have inscriptions including identifications, others are more extensive, and others are not marked at all. The more detailed inscriptions are listed below:2002.87.121: "Times Newpaper boy Gregory P. Ziemack, / cited for Merit award, swaps honors / with 'Mr. success' for month, William H. / Mortensen, managing director of Bushnell / Memorial- Hfd. Times - Feb. 15, 1961".
2002.87.120: "E. Barrie Smith, WHM, Councilman John Bonee, / Charles C. Cunningham, Howard Cohen, / Preview -Avery Memorial - March 10, 1952 4 p.m. / 'Pictura' / motion picture / Picture at Bushnell - March 25, 1952".
2002.87.119: "Dedication of C. C. Hyde Lab. , Edward H. Lorenz Hall and Howell Cheney Hall / Dedication talk by WHM -Tuesday, May 12, 1959 at 8 p. m. / Left ot tight: Chairman Sam Wilkes, Dr. Rosewell Ham, / Miss Laura C. Johnson and WHM."
2002.87.114: "Justice Raymond E. Baldwin, Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor) and / William H. Mortensen / Tues. Eve., October 12, 1954 - N.Y. Philharmonic - Symphony Orchestra".
2002.87.112: "John D. Lodge / Lt. Gov Anthony Armentano / WHM [....] / Grand Opera Anniversary Banquet".
2002.87.106: "l-r: "J. Alfred Bedlow, Stanley Vicas, WHM, Murray H. Cohen, Joe di Stefano, Benedict Abel".
2002.87.104: "Honoring Mr. Bradsteet in Bushnell Lobby / 1933/ L-R: Mary Hooker, Mayor Rankin, WHM, Mr B. and Toger W. Davis atty. Bureao of Adult ed. Chairman."
2002.87.103: "1944 about / Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin / Clare Booth Luce / in the Green Room".
2002.87.102: "At colonial Room reception for / Moscow State Symphony 1/2/60 / Left / Center: mme. Galina Vishnevskaya / Right: Concordia Gregorieff".
2002.87.101 on verso in ink: [from r-l] "Mr. Shipee / Martin / Mrs. Martin / Alice / WHM / Mrs. Fraser / Mr. Fraser / Sept 24, 1960 'My Fair Lady' dinner at Hearthstone".
2002.87.88 on verso in pencil: "Usher's Banquet - l-r Ben Abile, John Scharper, Joseph De Stefano, J. Alfred Bedlow".
NotesSubject Note: The film Pictura Adventure in Art won the a Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Cultural Award for 1951at the Golden Globes.
Clare Booth Luce would have been a Connecticut Senator when the photograph was taken. She served two terms. She was also a playwright, and an ambassador.
Concordia Gregorieff fled Russia with her aristocratic family during the Russian Revolution to live in the United States. A book was written about her: Broken Beads: The Story of Concordia A. Gregorieff During the Days of Imperial Russia
by Polly Williams Zarella of West Hartford, Connecticut.
Julien Bryan was a film maker and founder of the International Film Foundation.
Subject Terms
- Mayors
- Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall (Hartford, Conn.)
- Baldwin, Raymond E. (Raymond Earl), 1893-1983
- Piano (Musical instruments)
- Dinners and dining
- Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987
- Mortensen, Alice Carroll, 1894-1983
- Mortensen, William H., 1903-1990
- Seaverns family
- Seaverns, Appleton
- Seaverns, Charles F. T.
- Needles, Henry L.
- Mortensen, Elmer
- Dempsey, John Noel, 1915-1989
- Carter, Boake, 1898-1944
- Katz, Dr. Henry
- Smith, E. Barrie
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960
- Lodge, John Davis, 1903-1985
- Bedlow, J. Alfred
- Coote, Albert W.
- Vishnevskaia, Galina, 1926-
- Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985
- Uccello, Antonina P., 1922-2023
- Landerman, Paul C.
- Lopez, Vincent, 1894-
- Cole, William K.
- Widem, Allen M.
- Watson, Jane
- Heublein, Anne R.
- Harris, Harrison
- Wilkes, Samuel B.
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
- Bryan, Julien Hequembourg
- Committees
- Fuller, Alfred C.
- Gregorieff, Concordia Alexander, 1903-
- Ham, Roswell Gray, 1891-1983
- Bonee, John L.
- Armentano, Anthony J.
- Vicas, Stanley C.
- Cohen, Murray H.
- DiStefano, Joseph S.
- Abile, Benedict J.
- Rankin, William J.
- Davis, Roger W.
- Newman, Seymour S.
- Godfrey, Michael J.
- Wright, L. Leverett
- Rogers, Michael C.
- Lacava, Frank A.
- LeVarge, Fred R.
- Allen, Edward N.
- Jamieson, Leland S.
- Quinlan, Francis L.
- Cohen, Louis
- Segal, Ben, 1919-2002
- Bonoff, Burton
- Chindmark, Einar G.
- Kula Studios
- Lescoe, Ed
- Grube Camera Shop
- Kingston, Ellery G.
- Page, Roger J.
- Spafford, Dick
- Hadley, Wardwell G.
- Hatsian, Arman G.
- Grogan, Grover W.
- Mortensen family
- Hartford (Conn.)
- Wethersfield (Conn.)
- West Springfield (Mass.)
- Gelatin Silver Prints
- Pomfret
- Hartford
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