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Photo, Print, Drawing [Portrait photographs from the Marian S. Carson collection]

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Title

  • [Portrait photographs from the Marian S. Carson collection]

Summary

  • Mainly studio portrait photographs, many are cabinet cards, group portraits, modern photographs of portrait paintings after such artists as John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale, as well as some silhouettes, notably of George and Martha Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt. Includes the 1873 Princeton baseball team, the Dauntless baseball team, a photo-montage of cartes de visite of the Bachelor Baseball Club, as well as a photograph of the montage, the "Class of 1888 & 1889. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts", a color reproduction of the ca. 1797 Gilbert Stuart painting of Elizabeth Beale Bordley (1777-1863), an "Ivory Photograph" portrait of a young woman, copyright Oct. 3 1872 by J.H. Pope, 91 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md., includes letter to the Copyright Office, copyright stamp, date and number. Also, a full-length portrait of "Madam Rachel", a photolithographic portrait of Jas. A. Cutting of Cutting & Turner, 10 Tremont Row, Boston (1857-1859), printed by Cutting & Bradford's Photolithography, and a portrait of "L.H. Bradford, lithographer, 221 Washington St., Boston" also printed by J.A. Cutting & L.H. Bradford, two portraits of women each labeled as a "specimen of photograph printed from stone" dated 1858 and 1859, possibly by Cutting & Turner or Cutting & Bradford. There are several proof portrait photographs used for ordering additional copies, one in particular is a three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, "Miss Hardee", the daughter of the Commandant of Cadets at West Point between 1856 and 1861, Confederate general William Joseph Hardee. Includes portraits in natural settings, as well as group portraits of students in a classroom and textile workers inside a textile factory.

Names

  • Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815, artist
  • Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
  • Newman, Adolph, active 1868-1896, photographer
  • Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827, artist
  • Pope, J. H. (John Henry), 1824-1889, photographer
  • Trask, A. K. P. (Albion K. P.), 1830-1900, photographer
  • Cutting & Bradford, photographer
  • Cutting & Turner, photographer
  • Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [1850-1970]

Headings

  • -  Adams, John Quincy,--1767-1848
  • -  Bogardus, A.--(Abraham),--1822-1908
  • -  Booth, James Curtis,--1810-1888
  • -  Bradford, Lodowick Harrington,--1820-1885
  • -  Brown, John,--1800-1859
  • -  Carson, Joseph,--1883
  • -  Cooper, Peter,--1791-1883
  • -  Cutting, James Ambrose,--1814-1867
  • -  Grant, Ulysses S.--(Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885
  • -  Hardee, William Joseph,--1815-1873--Family
  • -  La Farge, John,--1835-1910
  • -  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,--1807-1882
  • -  Queen, James Fuller,--1820 or 1821-1886
  • -  Rachel,--Madame
  • -  Red Cloud,--1822-1909
  • -  Ritner, Joseph,--1780-1869
  • -  Ross, Charles Brewster,--1870
  • -  Samuel, Bernard,--1880-1954
  • -  Sartain, John,--1808-1897
  • -  Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,--Baron,--1809-1892
  • -  Authors
  • -  Artists
  • -  Baseball players
  • -  Classrooms
  • -  Government officials
  • -  Students
  • -  Textile mill workers

Format Headings

  • Albumen prints--1860-1890.
  • Cabinet photographs--1870-1890.
  • Cartes de visite--1860-1880.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1930-1970.
  • Group portraits--1880-1920.
  • Photomechanical prints--Color--1890-1970.
  • Portrait photographs--1850-1970.
  • Silhouettes--1870-1890.

Genre

  • Cartes de visite--1860-1880
  • Cabinet photographs--1870-1890
  • Silhouettes--1870-1890
  • Portrait photographs--1850-1970
  • Group portraits--1880-1920
  • Photomechanical prints--Color--1890-1970
  • Albumen prints--1860-1890
  • Gelatin silver prints--1930-1970

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Organized into a single LOT; Arrangement: Arranged by size in 2 AA size boxes, 1 A size box, and 1 B size box.
  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Among the photographers represented are: C.M. Bell, E.S. Dunslee, 1330 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, O.B. De Morat, Phila., Washington Lafayette Germon, 702 Chestnut St., Phila., Gilbert & Bacon, Phila., Commercial Photo Company, Boston, Ma., J.F. Holley, Chestertown, N.Y., Adolph Newman, Charles H. Townsend, Willimantic, Conn., Napoleon Sarony, 87 Union Sqr. N.Y., Hargrave & Gubelman, Jersey City & New York, S.L. Stein, Milwaukee, and Spieler's Photograph Rooms, 720 Chestnut St., Phila.
  • -  (DLC/PP-1997:105, 1998:151, 2001:029).
  • -  Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Medium

  • 164 photographs : albumen, gelatin silver ; sheets 58.2 x 45 cm or smaller.
  • 6 prints : collotype, halftone, photolithograph, some color ; sheets 34.3 x 27 cm or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 14118 (H) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Carson, Marian S. Visual materials from the Marian S. Carson collection

Repository

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016645682

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Copley, John Singleton, Artist, Charles Willson Peale, and Marian S. Carson Collection, Gutekunst, Frederick, Adolph Newman, J. H Pope, A. K. P Trask, Cutting & Bradford, and Cutting & Turner, photographer. Portrait photographs from the Marian S. Carson collection. , 1850. [to 1970] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016645682/.

APA citation style:

Copley, J. S., Peale, C. W. & Marian S. Carson Collection, Gutekunst, F., Newman, A., Pope, J. H., Trask, A. K. P., Cutting & Bradford & Cutting & Turner, photographer. (1850) Portrait photographs from the Marian S. Carson collection. , 1850. [to 1970] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016645682/.

MLA citation style:

Copley, John Singleton, Artist, Charles Willson Peale, and Marian S. Carson Collection, photographers by Gutekunst, Frederick, et al. Portrait photographs from the Marian S. Carson collection. [to 1970] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016645682/>.