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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Cartes-de-visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others

About this Item

Title

  • Cartes-de-visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others

Summary

  • Portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others, including James Fenimore Cooper, Garibaldi, Empress Eugenie, Kit Carson, and Louis Agassiz. Portraits of Generals Beauregard (C.S.A.), Fitz John Porter, Dix, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Anderson, and Burnside; Maj. Gens. George McClellan, Joe Hooker, and Nathaniel Banks; and Admiral Dupont. Also includes one view of the Long Bridge from Fourteenth Street in Washington, D.C., and Civil War battle sites in Virginia. At the end of the album are 25 color print cards showing leaves

Created / Published

  • ca. 1865.

Headings

  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel
  • -  Military officers--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870
  • -  Children--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870

Format Headings

  • Albumen prints--1860-1870.
  • Cartes de visite--1860-1870.
  • Photograph albums--1860-1870.
  • Portrait photographs--1860-1870.

Genre

  • Albumen prints--1860-1870
  • Cartes de visite--1860-1870
  • Photograph albums--1860-1870
  • Portrait photographs--1860-1870

Notes

  • -  LOT title and other information from catalog card and published guide: Washingtoniana Photographs ... Library of Congress, 1989.
  • -  Photographers include many cards published by E. Anthony from Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery; Brady's Album Gallery as well as a scattering of cards by J.W. Black (Boston); R.S. DeLamater (Hartford, Conn.); Charles D. Fredericks (N.Y.); and E. Carpenter, Dunshee, Gorham, F. Hacker, Manchester Bros., and Frank Rowell (all of Providence, R.I.).
  • -  A color copy reference surrogate (filed with finding aids as LOT 9934) is available in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. This resource reproduces the front and back of each photograph.
  • -  Gift; Mrs. Norman P. Mason; 1963 Oct.

Medium

  • 1 album (70 albumen prints on cartes de visite mounts, some colored) ; 14 x 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 9934 (OH) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2004668939

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Access Advisory

  • Album served by appointment only.

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

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  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  • Reproduction Number: ---
  • Call Number: LOT 9934 (OH) [P&P]
  • Access Advisory: Album served by appointment only.

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Cartes-de-visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others. United States Washington D.C, ca. 1865. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2004668939/.

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(ca. 1865) Cartes-de-visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others. United States Washington D.C, ca. 1865. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2004668939/.

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Cartes-de-visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2004668939/>.