G.M. Wheeler album of carte-de-visite photographs of engraved portraits of Civil War-era officers | Collections | The Huntington

G.M. Wheeler album of carte-de-visite photographs of engraved portraits of Civil War-era officers | Collections | The Huntington

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Portraits of Civil War generals, officers, legislators, and related photographs
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Carte-de-visite photographs of primarily Confederate Army generals, with a few Union Army generals, and portraits of other individuals. Contents: (photograph of a drawing) of Jefferson Davis (on verso: ticket for a raffle for the original drawing, held in Macon, Georgia); Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook; Gen. John Bankhead Magruder; Gen. William Mahone; Gen. George Gordon Meade; Alfred Mitchell; Col. John H. Morgan (1825-1864); Edward Duffield Neill; Rev. Nicholson (Richmond, Virginia); John Ott (Virginia); Gen. William Pendleton; Gen. George E. Pickett; John T. Pickett; Gen. John Pegram; Rev. William Swan Plumer; Davis Quinn (purser, steamer Keyport); Gen. George W. Randolph; Conway Robinson; Gen. Lovell Rousseau; John Thomas Scharf; Confederate Navy Admiral Rafael Semmes; Gen. William T. Sherman; Thaddeus Stevens (legislator); Mary Spotswood, daughter of Charles Campbell; Flora Cooke Stuart, wife of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart; Charles Sumner (senator); Gen. William R. Terry; Robert Toombs (Confederate secretary of state); Brig. Gen. Williams Carter Wickham; Gen. Henry A. Wise. Majority of photographs taken at Lee Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; a few by Mathew Brady, Washington D.C.
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An album with 177 photographs taken during the Civil War, especially carte-de-visite portraits of Union and Confederate generals, high ranking officers, and contemporary political and public figures. The photographs have handwritten captions in German. A note laid in the front of the volume is signed by Agnes Salm-Salm, the wife of the Prussian mercenary Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm who was appointed colonel of the 68th New York Infantry Regiment. While most of the images are studio portraits, there are a few photographs of military scenes in Tennessee; Dalton, Georgia; and an army field camp in Virginia, dated 1863. Some of the photographs are autographed, including the portrait of General Joseph Hooker. The captions of some of the photographs indicate that the subjects are European aristocrats, including Graf von Paris, Herzog von Chartres, Prinz von Joinville, and Baron von Gerolt. In some cases the captions identify the regiment that the subject is associated with, and there are several members of the 68th New York Infantry Regiment. The album also contains an illustrated portrait of Union General James B. Steedman; a photograph of President Andrew Johnson, dated 1867; a colored sketch of purple and white flowers; and several composite cartes-de-visites of Civil War officers. The collection contains pictures of women and children, including two tin-type photographs, both studio portraits. On the last page of the album there is a studio portrait of John Wilkes Booth; "Washington and Lincoln (Apotheosis)," a photograph after a painting by James Ferris; a photograph of the marriage of Tom Thumb; and a studio portrait of Frederick d'Utassy as a flag bearer.
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