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John Morse Ordway

Object summary

Title: John Morse Ordway
Object ID: MEM-2658
Date made: 1925
Artist/creator: Burdick, Horace Robbins
Object type: Painting; Portrait
Major collection: MIT History
On view: No

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Description

Oil on canvas portrait of John Morse Ordway seated against a neutral grey background.

Inscriptions

Type: inscription
Location: on back
Text: Portrait of John Morse Ordway. / Born Amesbury, Mass, April 23rd 1823. / Died Saugus Mass. July 4th, 1909. / Professor of Metallurgy & Industrial Chemistry / Painted by H.R. Burdick 1925 from photograph / Presented by Wm. E. Nickerson, Class of 1874-5-6.

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Burdick, Horace Robbins

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