3-005-722 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

George Kennan, half-length portrait, facing left, 1865. Printed on recto of photograph: Home Sweet Home. Inscribed on verso: G.K. - 1st trip to Siberia, 19 or 20 years old. Taken in 1865. This picture represents George in Siberia next winter sitting on the head of an empty mackerel cask warming his congealed fingers over a little fire thinking of childhood's happy hours where he could warm himself by an air tight stove.